They have opened up a whole new way to see this desert. In the southwest part of Libya, a region called Fezzan is the beating heart of the Sahara, an inaccessible place full of sand seas ...

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 altogether ...

Turns out, however, that a surprising proportion of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at all. Just 25 percent of the Sahara’s surface is covered by sand. We say “just ...

The Sahara Desert is famous for its dry, barren landscapes, with some regions receiving only a few inches of rain annually. However, it's not the driest desert on Earth. That title goes to Dead ...

The name of these particular sand dunes is Erg Chebbi. Merzouga is a town right on the edge of Erg Chebbi, and most Sahara ...

The rebel commander, his face hidden behind a dark turban, leads the way over the soft sand ... drug smuggling in the Sahara, they needed to enlist the Tuareg. "The desert has no secrets from ...

April 4 (Reuters) - The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to ...

THERE'S a little-known beach in Italy that looks like the Sahara Desert. With huge golden sands ... of Italy” and has some of the highest sand dunes in Europe. Piscinas is surrounded by ...

Water rushing between the sand dunes of southern Morocco. In desert communities frequented ... have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts.