and ancient channels testify that rivers ran in the center of the desert. Climate change has been like an on-off switch in the Sahara. In dry times the lakes dwindled and the plants declined to ...

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj volcanic field interspersed with patches of golden sand.

The rain not only filled ancient lake beds but also replenished ... even if only for a fleeting moment. The post Sahara Desert Struck By Flood, Filling Lakes That Have Been Dry for 50 Years ...

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 ...

It's a surreal image left by the heavy rains that fell in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara ... So, the old desert lakes will come back to life.” ...

Archaeologists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB), led by archaeologist Ella Egberts, unearthed ancient stone tools in Iraq's Western Desert ... was once a large lake during the ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle Paleolithic eras. Included in the finds were ancient stone hand axes that date ...