This week, discover the Sahara’s greener past, explore a mysterious cosmological force, marvel at a new concept for space ...

About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert on Earth ... It spans 11 countries - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan - and has a ...

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 ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

April 4 (Reuters) - The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to ...

A view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya ...