Scientists believe that a cave east of Athens was a hideout for lions which roamed the ancient Greek countryside thousands of ...

Full of culture and some of the world’s most diverse wildlife, an African vacation offers more than meets the eye. The African continent is the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous ...

Today, the Sahara Desert is a hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New ...

Forty-five years after the outbreak of the Berber Spring of 1980 and the savage and inhumane repression that followed, as ...

But Borisov claims the ancient rivers could also correspond to the Nile (Gihon), Euphrates, Tigris, and the Indus River (Pishon). “By examining a map from around 500 BC, it becomes apparent that ...

Chandera Weldesenbet is worried about dying before he receives the help he needs.The 41-year-old veteran of the recent war in ...

"This is borne out by the presence of abundant archaeological evidence in the Empty Quarter and along its ancient lake and river networks. "By 6,000 years ago, the Empty Quarter experienced a ...

The story of the National Museum – taken over by armed men, its gold and valuables looted and stolen – mirrors the individual ...

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The groundbreaking research, published in Communications Earth & Environment, reveals that the desert was once home to ancient ... Africa. The “Green Arabia” Period: A Land of Lakes and Rivers ...

In South Africa they are known as vleis or pans ... lines indicates that the lakes are isolated sections of an ancient river system, which was broken up as the dwindling streams failed to keep ...