The newly identified 64-kilometre-long branch of the river, named The Ahramat, would have provided an essential water route for transporting goods.

(CNN) — Egypt’s Great Pyramid and other ancient monuments at Giza exist on an isolated strip of land at the edge of the Sahara Desert.

A change of biblical proportions is washing across the Sahara Desert. For the first time in 6,000 years, new lakes have risen from the sands of southern Egypt. The Nile River, swollen by unusual ...

A timeline of Sahara occupation [See Map]: 22,000 to 10,500 years ago: The Sahara was devoid of any human occupation outside the Nile Valley and extended 250 miles further south than it does today.

Egypt is rewriting the rules of survival in one of the planet’s harshest environments with its groundbreaking New Delta Project—a colossal 114,000-kilometer artificial river snaking through ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River then ...

Top: Map of the main rivers of the Mediterranean, West African Tropical and Equatorial regions of Africa. The Tamanrasett paleodrainage network across western Sahara was identified in this study.

Climate models indicate that 100,000 years ago, stormwater would have formed three large rivers running north through the Sahara. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Egypt’s Great Pyramid and other ancient monuments at Giza exist on an isolated strip of land at the edge of the Sahara Desert. The inhospitable location has long puzzled archaeologists, some of ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Egypt’s Great Pyramid and other ancient monuments at Giza exist on an isolated strip of land at the edge of the Sahara Desert. The inhospitable location has long ...