While the Egyptian pharaohs were raising their pyramids above the sands of Giza, another culture was quietly burying its dead ...

We have been on a years-long campaign of satellite remote sensing of the vast desert landscapes in Eastern Sudan. This involved using satellite aerial imagery to systematically and painstakingly ...

Today the Sahara desert is a dry, dusty, sandy land that stretches for millions of miles, but it wasn't always this way. Go back at little as 8,000 years and you'll find it was actually quite wet, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren ...

This video explores the geography, climate zones, and geological history of the Sahara Desert — the largest hot desert on ...

The fascinating but little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a pleasant green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world. Green Sahara. (Collage by Kuat Abeshev.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pioneering study discovered a previously unknown human lineage in Africa that dates back 50,000 years when modern human lineages ...

You’ll find a lot more sand than trees in the Sahara Desert, but that doesn’t mean they don’t occasionally crop up. Here’s the story of the Tree of Ténéré, as well as a couple other famous trees found ...

Florida is bracing for the Saharan Air Layer, a mass of dry, dusty air that impacts hurricane season and air quality. When to ...