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The mysterious origins of hundreds of mummified bodies, known as the Tarim Basin Mummies, which were found buried in boats in an uninhabitable region of desert in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China, have been uncovered. The Tarim...

Scientists have now pinpointed the age of a star dune in a remote area of Morocco and uncovered details about its formation and how it moves across the desert. The study focused upon a star dune in eastern Morocco called...

The discovery of a ship that disappeared five hundred years ago and was found in a desert in southwest Africa with gold coins aboard has been one of the most exciting archaeological finds of recent years. The Bom Jesus (The...

Kolmanskop, a once-thriving diamond mining town nestled in the Namib Desert, is now a ghost town visited only by tourists who regard it as a haunted town due to its history and spooky appearance. Its history started in 1908, when...

  Is the history of the Nabataeans mysterious or lost? The Kingdom of the Nabataeans has not been substantially recorded by scholars and archaeologists alike, but that is changing. The question is if there is any connection between the Nabataeans...

Snow in the Sahara Desert might sound impossible, but it's true! The exceptionally rare weather event, which has only happened in the North African desert a few times in the past 40 years, took place earlier this month near...

People who have not visited the beautiful Greek island of Lemnos may consider it a  moonscape due to its arid terrain.

An arid piece of land in the north-western Peloponnese has been dubbed the "Greek Desert" for its sand dunes and relative lack of vegetation. Located near the village of Vartholomio, the area of Thines has now been offered for sale...