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 ...

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 ...

New research has uncovered how powerful storms occasionally drench parts of theSahara Desert, forming short-lived lakes and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here are eight rare dog breeds from around the world of whom maybe you didn't heard about. An ancient breed from Southeast Asia, known for its distinctive ridge of hair on its back. A unique-looking ...

Whenever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do you know that the desert was not always this arid and once had water and ...