A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

Isotope analysis of limestone cave deposits indicates repeated humid periods in the Saharo-Arabian Desert over the past eight ...

It was a place few expected to be fighting in when war broke out in 1939. It was a conflict Hitler never wanted. It was a ...

The East African Rift, which first appeared in 2005 as a 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, is the initial sign of this process. Seismic data published in Geophysical Research Letters ...

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 a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period, the Sahara was not the desert we know today. It was a green expanse of land, with numerous plants and ...

The eight-day “Ultimate Jordan” package includes private tours of Jerash and Amman; private Bedouin jeep desert tour in Wadi Rum; private Petra tour with two-day entrance; private tour of ...

For decades, the small sultanate of Oman has lured travelers with its deep ties to tradition and its tranquil desert quarter.

Clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have already resulted in over 150,000 ...

as investigated particularly by the Carnegie Institution botanical staff in North American and North African deserts, brings out some points of considerable ecological interest.