A waterless sea of sand and stone ... flourished here in a climate much like that of the Sahara today. Many scholars assumed they were desert nomads, but excavations at their capital city ...

Not only is it the world's largest hot desert ... lost fossils of sea creatures from when the Sahara was literally under the ocean. So let's find out what's under all that sand!

The town of Swakopmund in Namibia is world-famous for its huge desert landscape and giant dunes that create ideal conditions ...

Residents, seemingly resigned to their fate, speak of the desert as ... Research suggests sand migration plays a significant role in desertification. Deserts, including the Sahara, are expanding ...

This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these ...

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.

The rebel commander, his face hidden behind a dark turban, leads the way over the soft sand ... drug smuggling in the Sahara, they needed to enlist the Tuareg. "The desert has no secrets from ...

North Africa is home to the greatest desert on Earth, the Sahara. This vast wilderness, the size of the United States, is the toughest part of the African continent – the sun rules mercilessly here.

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 ... as the Caspian Sea today.