Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through the Sahara desert to a gigantic “open-air museum” filled with prehistoric ...

This Africa Day, discover the breathtaking beauty and cultural richness of Africa's deserts. From the stunning dunes of the ...

If you’ve ever looked at a satellite image of Earth and thought, “What the hell is that?” — congratulations, you are not ...

Located on the southern side of the Sahara Desert ... formations are a result of wind and water erosion over a period of time. It also has many images painted and carved on the rock surface ...

The Sahara Desert, known today for its vast ... Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine analyzed stalagmites—rock formations that grow from cave floors when rainwater seeps through ...

Scientists are still trying to figure out how a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite rock found itself in the Sahara desert ... that there aren’t many similar formations on earth.

Nothing says adventure like running 222 kilometres through the heart of the Sahara Desert. The Algeria Treg ... a trail past thousand-year-old rock formations and across vast sandy plains.

Contact her at cara.tabachnick@cbsinteractive.com The Sahara ... Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya. The humans lived during the "African Humid Period," when the Sahara desert was ...

Among these rock formations are an estimated 15,000 prehistoric ... The rest of the country is the Sahara Desert with lunar and volcanic landscapes, stony plains and ergs (“fields” of sand ...