The Sahara Desert is on the far eastern edge of Morocco. You can actually see the border of Algeria from your camp! The name ...
DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...
Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologist Nada Salem and colleagues sequenced the ancient DNA of two female ...
An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...
A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom ... challenging its right to exploit Western Sahara’s resources, and Morocco and its neighbor Algeria—a key backer of the Polisario ...
Water rushing between the sand dunes of southern Morocco. In desert communities frequented ... have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts.
Rare storms temporarily create lakes in the Sahara desert, revealing surprising moisture pathways and climate connections.
Turns out, however, that a surprising proportion of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at all. Just 25 percent of the Sahara’s surface is covered by sand. We say “just ...
A 76-year-old Windsor man is set to embark on ‘the toughest footrace on earth’ – the Marathon des Sables – for a second time.