Today, the Sahara Desert is a hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people ... based ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of ...

Mummies discovered in modern-day Libya have been found to have no matching DNA with modern humans, leading to more questions than answers.

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Sister formations can be found at Fingal’s ... the Eye of the Sahara looks pretty much like any other part of this continent-straddling desert from the ground. But from up in space, this 40 ...