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A recent image taken from the International Space Station (ISS) has captured a curious sight atop the Emi Koussi volcano, ...
After decades of a self-reliant policy, the Algerian government is now moving forward with a comprehensive strategy to revive ...
Desert stargazing offers a chance to some of the clearest night skies on Earth. With little light pollution and vast expanses ...
From orbit, Emi Koussi’s dramatic caldera and lava-scarred slopes hint at its fiery past, while dried lakebeds and erosion ...
Desert hikes are an adventurous challenge, and trekkers love to explore the vast expanses under the sun's glare ...
(‘OK?”) asks Baba Atanof as a tourist struggles to get her leg over a large rock on a steep ascent in the Algerian Sahara Desert. Fighting jelly legs and vertigo, she can barely answ ...
"That," Mattingly notes, "is an awful lot of people in the hyperarid landscape of the central Sahara." An archaeologist at the University of Leicester, he's become a slave to the desert ...
The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid ... unlike today’s arid desert landscape,” said archaeogeneticist Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...
The Takarkori rock shelter, an archaeological site in Libya’s Tadrart Acacus mountains, offers a glimpse into the Sahara Desert's greener past. - Archaeological Mission in the Sahara/Sapienza ...
Located in the Sahara Desert, Tassili n'Ajjer National ... has long struggled to attract tourists to its desert landscape. But it's changing now, with the Algerian government rolling out a master ...
Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through ...