As the diamond supply dwindled, so the townspeople left in droves with possessions and homes completely abandoned. By 1956, ...

Africa's largest natural arch is located deep in the remote Sahara Desert, on the Ennedi Plateau in Chad, and reaching it is ...

Africa has nine deserts in total but none are arguably as famous as the Sahara. The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million square miles - an area roughly the size of the ...

Africa is the second-driest inhabited continent after Australia and as such, provides some varied deserts. Believed by many geologists to be the oldest desert in the world, the Namib in Southern ...

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

"We were able to reconstruct, within two or three degrees, what a field biologist observed in the middle of the Australian and African deserts more than 50 years ago," Professor Kearney said.

Songhoy Blues, an African desert blues group with Touré at the helm, was eventually formed. The group gained fame after a run ...