Amid ongoing investigations into the shocking disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, authorities have reportedly recovered what appears to be human remains in a desert 15 miles from her home.Law enforcement ...
In 1908, a railway worker clearing sand beside a track in what is now Namibia noticed something unusual: stones that caught the sunlight. His German supervisor, August Stauch, recognised the discovery...
Long before Stonehenge became one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments, a group of people living on the edge of the Sahara were already watching the movements of the heavens. In a landscap...
Deep in Niger’s Ténéré Desert once stood what was widely regarded as the world’s loneliest tree, an umbrella thorn acacia that survived for around 300 years despite having no other tree wi...
Saudi Arabia executes man convicted of burning wife alive A Saudi man convicted of murdering his wife by luring her to a remote desert area and setting her on fire was executed in the Tabuk region on ...
It is not often that a handful of pale yellow fragments lying quietly in desert sand end up pulling scientists back into questions about ancient catastrophe and planetary violence. Libyan Desert Glass...
Researchers have now used artificial intelligence to overcome the challenges faced by traditional human survey methods. The team from Yamagata University and IBM Research employed deep-learning models...
Israeli forces established a makeshift base using an old airstrip in Iraq’s desert during the war against Iran, two security officials told AFP on Sunday, confirming The Wall Street Journal repo...
Beneath the extremely dry surface of Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists discovered a functional community of microorganisms that challenges what we thought possible for life. While the ground above re...
In 2008, a diamond mining operation near Oranjemund, Namibia, resulted in the discovery of a significant piece of history when the wreck of the Bom Jesus, a Portuguese merchant ship lost at sea in 153...