The desert is home to a variety of unique plant and animal species, including desert foxes, sand cats, and Egyptian vultures ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

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 ...

Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands, but they were often more complex than modern ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Arabia's current desert landscape was once marked by periods of high rainfall, forming lakes and rivers around 9,000 years ago. An ancient lake, estimated at ...

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it's one of the driest deserts in the world ... system to their goals. Ancient beliefs, behaviors and ...