In a letter addressed to the Moroccan king in March this year—and a subsequent state visit—the Spanish government has made clear that it will not respect its historic obligation to support the ...

At once a vast expanse of mesmerizing desolation and the crucible of human history, the Sahara Desert has been both the battlefield of empires and the haunted wilderness at the margins of the known ...

Morocco's king on Friday lauded as "historic" a UN Security Council decision to support his country's plan for Western Sahara, a disputed territory that has provoked decades of conflict between Rabat ...

A hundred million years ago, the Sahara Desert was no barren wasteland, it was an ocean of death teeming with predators unlike any seen before or since. Giant crocodiles, airborne hunters, and the ...

Introduction -- A quick tour of the Sahara -- Flora and fauna -- Part 1: Landscapes. Whales in the desert -- Rock art -- Saharan urban -- Part 2: History: conquests and empires. From ancient Egypt to ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of ...

Standing atop a small dune deep in the Sahara Desert, a team of scientists stared at a freshly opened grave. Three human skeletons lay on their sides, as though they’d drifted off to sleep in the ...

Belgium has become the latest Western nation to endorse Morocco's autonomy proposal as a solution for the decades-long ...

The rocks were found in May 2020 in the Erg Chech sand sea, in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

"We are opening a new and victorious chapter in the process of enshrining the Moroccan character of the Sahara, which is intended to bring this issue to a definitive close," King Mohammed VI said in a ...