The location is called Guelta d’Archie and it served as a place where people and animals could stop for water thousands of ...

As Morocco's gateway to the Sahara, this under-the-radar town is a palm oasis in the desert sands with a rich culture and ...

Here, an oasis can be found within a narrow, rocky valley. In fact, the Sahara is home to around 90 major oases. However, given how big the Sahara is, these oases are actually few and far between.

The Sahara Desert, which covers over 3.5 million square miles, was once a green oasis. (Image credit: LucynaKoch/Getty Images) Millions of years ago, the Sahara was a green oasis covered in trees ...

Archaeologists already were aware of walled structures at Tayma and Qurayyah, but the experts confirmed four more—first ...

How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely. ... Sometimes known as the gateway to the Sahara, Mhamid and its surrounding villages are home to about 6,100 people.

An oasis formed in the Moroccan area of Merzouga, thanks to the storm. AP. The storm comes after six straight years of droughts. “It’s been 30 to 50 years since we’ve had this much rain in ...

These desert crocodiles, which once thrived across a much broader region, have become a living relic of a past when the Sahara was vastly different—a fertile, green land with rivers and wildlife.

Two urban centers are key to a large-scale initiative regarding Niger’s ancient patrimony — Niamey, the southern capital, and Agadez, a growing oasis town within the Sahara some 560 miles north.

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...