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 ...

How this ancient African city is being buried under Sahara sand - The ancient city of Chinguetti is succumbing to a sea of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...