Today, the Sahara is decidedly arid ... Traders, often with camel caravans in tow, braved the harsh desert terrain to move ...

He grew up in an Aïr village, making the annual camel caravan with his father ... and drug smuggling in the Sahara, they needed to enlist the Tuareg. "The desert has no secrets from the Tuareg ...

To kid-me, being an archaeologist meant emerging from the whorls of a sandstorm with a scarf wrapped around my face as I rode a camel through the golden-orange dunes of the Sahara Desert ...

Remi Benali / Corbis The Sahara is expanding ... the axis toward Mecca. Desert caravans were the source of Chinguetti's economic prosperity, with as many as 30,000 camels gathering there at ...

But have you ever wondered what plants and animals live in a desert and how they survive there? This is the Sahara ... And animals too! A camel. What's with the hump? It stores fat in that ...