Scientists are excited over a recent discovery of "black mesas" in the Sahara desert that appear to be hundreds of millions of years old. The are was discovered in the southern Mauritania region of ...

The Sahara is hiding a perfect 50-kilometre bullseye that can be seen only from space. What carved this giant eye into the ...

Stunning concentric rings in Libya's Sahara Desert, Jabal Arkanū, were formed by ancient volcanic activity and millions of ...

Deep in the Libyan Sahara lies Jabal Arkanū, a massive, near-perfect set of stone rings once mistaken for a meteorite impact ...

Located approximately 8 miles northwest of Guérou in southern Mauritania, these black mesas rise steeply from the surrounding plains, reaching heights of 1,000 to 1,300 feet. Composed of sandstone, ...

Known as the Richat Structure, this 50-kilometre-wide geological wonder has once again fascinated scientists and storytellers ...

The Nile River, a vital artery flowing north for 6,650 km, has served as the cradle of Egyptian civilization for millennia.

Africa’s Sahara desert is a prime location, some say, to build arrays of solar panels and wind turbines. But scientists are ...

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

The road to the Tree of Life in Bahrain feels like a wrong turn, with one long stretch of the Sakhir Desert folding into ...

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The Sahrawi, descendants of Arab and Berber nomads who herded camels and goats across the desert for millennia, found their ...