Ralph Bagnold, a Cambridge-educated engineer in the British Army, explored the Sinai and Sahara on leave before drafting his 1941 masterwork The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, which is ...

I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take ... motorized travel in the Libyan Desert in the 1920s and ’30s.

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

The Mojave National Preserve features gigantic, singing sand dunes, which have existed for thousands of years, and they are ...

The continent boasts nine separate deserts, including a vast Sahara that ... of divine desert adventures like sandboarding, camel-camping, and 4x4 dune-bashing in the Great Sand Sea that surrounds ...

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.

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 different ...