The Sahara is a desert spanning North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres, it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts
The Sahara taken by Apollo 17 astronauts, 1972
A 2002 satellite image of the Sahara by NASA WorldWind
An oasis in the Ahaggar Mountains
Sand dunes in the Algerian Sahara
The Tuareg people or the Tuaregs are a Berber ethnic group. They are traditionally nomadic pastoralists who principally inhabit the Sahara in an area stretching from southwestern Libya to southern Alg
A Tuareg in Algiers, Algeria, 2015
An artist's representation of Tin Hinan, an ancient queen of the Hoggar
Tuareg chief Moussa Ag Amastan arriving in Paris, 1910
A Tuareg man in Mali with his slave, 1974