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

Shivam Verma Updated : Mar 22, 2025, 11:04 PM IST The Sahara Desert, famous for its vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness, might not always remain barren. Scientists believe that a combination of ...

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Turns out, however, that a surprising proportion of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at all. Just 25 percent of the Sahara’s surface is covered by sand. We say “just ...

The novel tells the story of a French detachment in Tunisia that must escort an engineer into the Sahara, where he plans to turn the desert into a vast sea ... had conducted a topographic and geodetic ...

About two decades ago, African nations launched an audacious plan: a 7,700km “Great Green Wall” to hold back the Sahara Desert’s southward march. Yet years passed and progress was stalled ...

Morocco governs most of the Western Sahara – and has done since Spanish powers left in the 1970s – but liberation movement the Polisario Front claims it as an independent state. The UN calls ...

JACKSON TWP. ‒ Police are asking the public to help them find 17-year-old Sahara King, who ran away from home. She is 5 feet, 2 inches tall, weighs 140 pounds, and has blue eyes and strawberry ...