Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

It could also explain why these pyramids are concentrated in what is now a narrow, inhospitable desert strip in the harsh Sahara Desert, far from where the Nile is today. We suggest that The ...

This intriguing astronaut photo shows around a dozen giant "star dunes" as they slowly dance across a sandy field near the ...

When the wind dies down and the sands are still, a long shadow casts a wedge of darkness across the Sahara, creeping ever ... in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza, where stone meets sky ...

How and why did the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids? These two questions puzzled generations of people who came across these gigantic, mysterious structures in the Sahara Desert. Today we're ...

The Takarkori rock shelter, an archaeological site in Libya’s Tadrart Acacus mountains, offers a glimpse into the Sahara Desert's greener past. - Archaeological Mission in the Sahara/Sapienza ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...