An hour before dawn, in a nameless rock pile in the world’s largest hot desert, Djimet Guemona clambered up a narrow gully. The route was hemmed by high walls, where uncountable centuries of ...

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert on planet-crossing over 12 African countries with 3.6 million square miles. Its size is compared to the entire United ...

Burkina Faso consistently ranks as the hottest country in Africa by average annual temperature, often exceeding 28°C year-round. Located in the Sahel region, the country experiences long, dry seasons ...

The cast and crew describe how they shot those North African desert scenes. The cast and crew of Season 2 describe how they approached designing the sets and filming the North African desert scenes, ...

Travel back millions of years to explore the latest findings in human evolution at a free public lecture hosted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Renowned paleoanthropologist and ...

For those who find themselves awed by arid landscapes, there’s no place like Africa. The continent boasts nine separate deserts, including a vast Sahara that sprawls across much of the north, the rust ...

A research team was able to locate human populations in an African desert believed to have disappeared more than 50 years ago. DNA studies helped show the genetic differences between neighboring ...