A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Sahara were found to be from an unknown ancestry of humans as they did not share any ...

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

A mining firm uncovered an epic lost shipwreck in the middle of an African desert, containing a multi ... vessels to emerge in the area before the find. Speaking to Fox News back in 2016, he ...

It was unearthed by diamond miners in a desert ... the historic find was made, the Bom Jesus remains the oldest and most valuable shipwreck ever discovered in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

Follow the three years of battles in the North African desert, and see how Axis and Allied forces chased each other across this hostile terrain.

At the end of a warmer and wetter climate stage called the African Humid Period, the Sahara transformed into the world's largest hot desert roughly around 3,000 BC. Members of our species Homo sapiens ...