The Atacama Desert in Chile is widely recognised as the driest nonpolar desert in the world ...

A jaw-dropping discovery has been made beneath the world's longest, driest desert, revealing a 5,000-year-old civilization ...

The Atacama is the world's non-polar driest desert. It is also the second overall driest in the world. It is here that travellers will find the starkly beautiful ghost town of Humberstone.

The dry desert conditions have proved an excellent preservative with archaeologists able to uncover wooden beams and a range of wooden furniture. Even more surprising are papyri fragments written ...

New research reveals that only the most intense Atlantic-sourced storms are responsible for filling a normally dry lake in ...