This intriguing astronaut photo shows around a dozen giant "star dunes" as they slowly dance across a sandy field near the ...

A recent study led by Italian researchers Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde and Corrado Malanga of the University of Pisa has generated significant interest worldwide. On 23 March, ...

And it could help explain why they now seem to be situated in a narrow, inhospitable desert ... of 31 pyramids, including the Giza pyramid complex, in this inhospitable part of the Sahara.

How and why did the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids? These two questions puzzled generations of people who came across these gigantic, mysterious structures in the Sahara Desert. Today we're ...

When the wind dies down and the sands are still, a long shadow casts a wedge of darkness across the Sahara, creeping ever ... in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza, where stone meets sky ...