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 ...

This striking astronaut photo shows off an "eye-catching" impact crater in the Sahara Desert. The oculus-like ... eroded over time — similar to other ancient impact craters — and were likely ...

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 ...

The Garamantian Empire survived in the extreme conditions of the Sahara Desert for hundreds of years ... “The Empire was focused on a main City Germa at the base of a large escarpment ...

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.

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 ...

(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 ...