The Sahara is, perhaps, one of the most mysterious places on the planet. Not only is it the world's largest hot desert, but ...

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj ...

A new study led by researchers at University College London suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in ...

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

John seems to have developed an interest in 'digging things up' as he has been to the Sahara to film the remains of a British airliner which crashed there in 1952 and more recently to the less ...

From the Sahara’s origins as savanna woodland and grassland to its current arid incarnation, Martin Williams takes us on a vivid journey through time. He describes how the desert’s ancient rocks were ...

View of the Richat Structure, purported by some to be Atlantis. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain A fairly recent theory about the truth behind Atlantis is that it can be identified with a ...