April 4 (Reuters) - The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to ...

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

The Sahara’s sand dunes don’t just roll languidly on the horizon; they rise like giants on the desert stage. Some of these dunes reach impressive heights of over 180 meters (590 feet ...

Remi Benali / Corbis The Sahara is expanding southward at a rate of 30 miles per year—and part of the desert's recently ... Sunni pilgrims since the 13th century. After a visit in 1996, writer ...

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that ... Shared genetic drift (random changes in genetic make-up over time) in the individuals in Morocco ...

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