A systematic satellite survey of Sudan’s Atbai Desert has identified hundreds of monumental circular stone tombs belonging to a cattle-herding culture that left no written records and has largely ...

African desert markets are famous for their unique handcrafted goods. Artisans create beautiful items using traditional techniques passed down through generations. From intricately carved wooden ...

The cast and crew describe how they shot those North African desert scenes. The cast and crew of Season 2 describe how they approached designing the sets and filming the North African desert scenes, ...

Lining the Cape of South Africa and its southern coast are long chains of caves that nearly 200,000 years ago were surrounded by a lush landscape and plentiful food. During a glacial phase that lasted ...

Think of African elephants and you might picture them wandering among open grasslands or making their homes in forests. But in northwest Namibia, amidst an arid landscape of rocky mountains, sand, and ...

"The Illustrated Flora of Burkina Faso and Mali" is the first comprehensive documentation of the remarkable plant diversity in these two west African countries. In a recently published paper, a ...

For those who find themselves awed by arid landscapes, there’s no place like Africa. The continent boasts nine separate deserts, including a vast Sahara that sprawls across much of the north, the rust ...

This huge Desert in northern Africa is an image tweeted by NASA astronaut Terry Virts on Feb. 11, 2015 from the International Space Station He wanted to share with his Twitter fans the enormous size ...

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured this beige desert image as the International Space Station passed over Africa. He tweeted out this message: ” I can always count on #Africa for colorful #EarthArt. ...