Ships of the desert, camels of the ocean ... He has published widely on the archaeology of North Africa and the Sahara. V. Leitch, University of Leicester V. Leitch is Publications Manager at the ...

In ancient times, the Nile's course extended kilometers into the Sahara Desert. The Ahramat tunnel had a length of approximately 63 kilometers and was between 200 and 700 meters wide. The pyramids ...

Beyond its practical purposes, the psychological impact of the wall must have been tremendous. For nearly three centuries, ...

Researchers from Ibn Zohr University in Agadir have announced a major archaeological discovery in the Assa Zag province, ...

The loneliest tree in the world, knocked down For hundreds of years, travellers and caravans in Niger used an isolated tree in the Sahara Desert as ... by Unesco as one of archaeology’s ...

Comparable with the modern-day African Namib Desert and the Lake Eyre Basin in ... mammals today that can inhabit regions such as the Sahara, it remains to be seen whether these mammals would ...

In the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert, near the border between Algeria and Niger, thousands of Sub-Saharan migrants face a harrowing ordeal. Deported by Algerian authorities, they are often left ...

If you didn’t know the context, pictures of the Sahara Desert from the edge of space could easily be mistaken for the surface of Mars instead. The western edge of the African desert is caked in ...

Back in 2007, nations in the Sahel region of Africa decided to stop the southward spread of the Sahara Desert to the north — fuelled by drought and climate change — by nurturing trees ...

A 4.45-billion-year-old grain of the mineral zircon in a Martian meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2011 indicates Mars may have been home to boiling hot hydrothermal systems similar to Earth ...

Among the most notable finds is a tiny, finely crafted anthropomorphic clay head featuring an elongated skull, slanting eyes ...