The Sahara Desert, known today for its vast, arid landscapes, was once a fertile region teeming with life. A recent study analyzing stalagmites from caves in southern Morocco has revealed that between ...

The Neolithic period began in southwest Asia around 12,000 years ago. It marked a major shift in human history as societies ...

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti ... Deserts, including the Sahara, are expanding at unprecedented rates and “sand seas” are being reactivated, with blowing dunes transforming landscapes ...

Analysis of stalagmite samples from caves in southern Morocco has provided new insights into rainfall patterns in the Sahara Desert in the past. Researchers from the University of Oxford and the ...

Analysis of stalagmite samples from caves in southern Morocco has provided new insights into rainfall patterns in the Sahara ...

When the wind dies down and the sands are still, a long shadow casts a wedge of darkness across the Sahara, creeping ever ... revise our understanding of ancient Egypt. This web site will show ...

In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange ... Now, paleontologists have unearthed a whole new species of ancient whale dating to 43 million years ago, and this predator wasn ...