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

Located in Egypt 's Western Desert, Siwa Oasis is famous for its rich history and cultural significance. Home to ancient ...

What do you picture when you think of the Sahara? A vast expanse of towering sand dunes? The occasional oasis, perhaps ... of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at all.

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

Spending a night or two in a Sahara Desert shelter under the stars or ... And what is more beautiful and soul-cleansing than kick-starting it in nature? More people, both locals and tourists ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

Aridification, when a region becomes gradually and increasingly drier, turned the once lush oasis into the Sahara desert known today. Using genomic analysis, the researchers found that the North ...