The United Nations envoy for the Western Sahara on Monday called on the Security Council to capitalize on what he called ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

Between 5,000 and 14,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert looked nothing like it does today. It was lush and green, with lakes ...

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

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...

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

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

Talks to resolve the conflict over Western Sahara should take place on the sole basis of a Moroccan plan that would give the ...

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 genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

Their lineage remained isolated throughout most of its existence before the Sahara again became uninhabitable. At the end of ...