In the extreme heat, piles of stone and walls that are ripped open bear witness to the impact of the latest, especially heavy ...

The city was built ... in Marrakesh's ancient walls to entire clay buildings crumbled on the ground. The day's end destination was Zagora, a village on the edge of Sahara Desert and an historical ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of ... that shed new light on the power held by priestesses in the ancient city.

the friendly sand of the Sahara Desert, has covered up and preserved almost entire for us whole cities in Northern Africa. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti ... rather than areas deep in the Sahara Desert. Still, in Chinguetti, a changing climate is ushering in many of the consequences that officials have ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that ... The authors sequenced ancient DNA from two naturally mummified female individuals buried at ...

From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the mediaeval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of the Mauritanian desert ... quartet of ancient, fortified towns ...