A relentless giant is stirring in North Africa. The Sahara Desert, already the size of the continental United States, grows ...

The Takarkori rock shelter, an archaeological site in Libya’s Tadrart Acacus mountains, offers a glimpse into the Sahara Desert's greener past. - Archaeological Mission in the Sahara/Sapienza ...

The Sahara Desert, a stretch of sand about the size of the United States, is an extremely forbidding land. With temperatures as high as 136 degrees Fahrenheit, it is one of the hottest places on Earth ...

In the north of Africa lies the Sahara Desert. It spans ten countries, three massive bodies of water and nearly 3.5 million square miles of land. It covers nearly 10 percent of Africa’s landmass and ...

Did you know the Sahara Desert was once a lush, green landscape? In Northern Chad’s Ennedi Massif, archaeologist Mahamat Ahmat Oumar is leading a groundbreaking mission to preserve prehistoric rock ...

Map location and satellite aerial imagery showing the region and landscape where ancient societies and Garamantes lived. Image from NASA/Luca Pietranera. Pittsburgh, Pa., USA: With its low quantities ...

Stunning concentric rings in Libya's Sahara Desert, Jabal Arkanū, were formed by ancient volcanic activity and millions of years of erosion, not meteo ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

The Garamantian Empire survived in the extreme conditions of the Sahara Desert for hundreds of years using a unique tunnel system for moving water, according to new research. Photo from Carlos Leret, ...

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 endless ...