The Ultimate Desert Retreat: A Night of Luxury Under the Stars Upon arrival at the luxury camp nestled among the dunes, Jali was welcomed with traditional Moroccan hospitality. His accommodation ...

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

"That night they tortured them behind ... threats of al Qaeda and drug smuggling in the Sahara, they needed to enlist the Tuareg. "The desert has no secrets from the Tuareg," he said, repeating ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.