The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti, a historical hub for poets, scholars, and theologians and home to thousands of manuscripts, is facing an existential threat from the encroaching desert.

Discover how Africa is combatting the encroachment of the Sahara Desert in this insightful video. - **0:00** Introduction - **0:46** The Sahel: Learn about this region's unique challenges and ...

Desert regions in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have been well studied by archaeologists as the home of early humans and as routes of migration along “green corridors”. The archaeology of ...

This huge Desert in northern Africa is an image tweeted by NASA astronaut Terry Virts on Feb. 11, 2015 from the International Space Station He wanted to share with his Twitter fans the enormous size ...