In 1990, Ghali led a new Tuareg uprising, signing a ceasefire in ... Instruments were torched. Ancient Sufi shrines were smashed with pickaxes. Women were ordered indoors. Adulterers were stoned.

A gold rush has broken out in the Sahara in recent years. Thousands of young Africans are digging in the sea of sand with pickaxes - and risking their lives in search of precious treasure.

On July 1, 1905, and for a month, the Magasin d’Education et de Récréation serialized a novel by Jules Verne titled L’invasion de la mer (The Invasion of the Sea), the last work the French author ...

Known for lending an experimental contemporary edge to traditional music from the ancient Arab world, Lebanese composer and ...

Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors.

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

We Might Feel Love in Our Fingertips But Did the Ancient Mesopotamians? Dec. 4, 2024 — A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient ...