Encased in the verdant oasis, the caravan town of Zagora sits separated ... exploring Morocco's desolate southern dunes and the Sahara Desert. Find a guide wrapped in an indigo tagelmust (or ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

Today, the Sahara is decidedly arid ... Traders, often with camel caravans in tow, braved the harsh desert terrain to move ...

the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes. Aa Aa Aa As he crossed by caravan from Tripoli to Timbuktu in the mid 1800s ...

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 ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the ...

"He knew how to make the salt caravan to Bilma ... threats of al Qaeda and drug smuggling in the Sahara, they needed to enlist the Tuareg. "The desert has no secrets from the Tuareg," he said ...

Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green, Was Home to Mysterious Human Lineage By Will Dunham (Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of ...