In the most remote corner of the Sahara Desert in Mauritania, there is a small village, so isolated from the world that it is not even on the maps. There isn't even a road to reach it. You must know ...

It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the ...

However, the genetic evidence presented by these mummies suggests that pastoralism, at least in the Green Sahara, may have spread not through migration but through the exchange of practices and ideas ...

An archaeology breakthrough has been made after a previously unknown human lineage that lived in the "green Sahara" in Africa was discovered through two 7,000-year-old mummies. DNA revealed the ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether different ...

For thousands of years, the Sahara was more than just a desert: it was a thriving land of lakes, grasslands, and human life. Now, DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummies has revealed a truth: a lost human ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

Lush greenery is as unexpected in the Sahara as it is in Antarctica ... What happened to them when their home became a desert again? All this has long been a matter of debate.

The Arabian Desert, today the largest expanse of windswept sand dunes on Earth, experienced recurring periods of humidity millions of years ago, researchers report April 9 in Nature. The study may ...

It comes after dust from the Sahara desert hit the UK in January last year. Met Office meteorologist Nicola Maxey said that while air quality could be affected it was unlikely to have much of an ...

Now a vast and parched expanse of sand and stone, the Sahara Desert hides secrets of a time when it teemed with life. Between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, this inhospitable region was a lush savannah, ...

Unlike Barbie, who has had a ubiquitous cultural presence for decades, Betty Boop is a Depression-era cartoon character of a jazz-age flapper, and in looks, attitude and style, she is of her time ...