Have you ever stood in a barren desert, feeling the world fall silent, only to hear a haunting, unearthly melody rising from the dunes? This isn’t a mirage or a trick of the mind. In some of the world ...

However, the genetic evidence presented by these mummies suggests that pastoralism, at least in the Green Sahara, may have spread not through migration but through the exchange of practices and ideas ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether different ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

Credit: Antoine Delaunay/Guillaume Baby/Abdallah Zaki An international team of researchers, including scientists from UNIGE, has discovered that the Arabian Peninsula’s desert was once shaped ... Its ...

A list of the Top 10 Multi-day Horse-back treks would be incomplete without the mention of a trek through some of the world’s most treacherous terrain – the Sahara Desert. This imposing landscape of ...

THE MET Office has released a satellite image showing a cloud of Saharan dust particles hovering over the UK. Some may have already noticed that the skies appear somewhat hazier than usual.

The sand wall near the Tindouf camps forms a 50-kilometer segment of the approximately 2,700-kilometer-long structure, stretching from the southern city of Guerguerat, and reaching approximately ...

TRIPOLI: The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or ...

Today, the Sahara Desert is a hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New ...

But the Green Sahara people carried only trace amounts of Neanderthal DNA, illustrating that they had scant contact with outside populations. Although the Takarkori population itself disappeared ...