Buried deep in a remote desert, miners stumbled on a centuries-old secret lost to history. Gold, ivory, and a forgotten ...

Step inside the haunting remains of Kolmanskop, a once-thriving diamond mining town in Namibia, now slowly reclaimed by the ...

It's the most brilliant stone that you can find.” Though she had visited before, the Messika Diamonds founder began her love ...

Deserts are often dismissed as empty wastelands of sand and sun, but these arid landscapes hide some of the most perplexing ...

Wildlife Worldwide’s new 14-day tour of the Gouli Valley – known as the Valley of the Cats for its wild felines – is one of ...

A wellness cruise along Africa’s west coast can be a lesson in diplomacy, Jewish history, and cultural depth, showing luxury ...

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot—the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising ...

The majority of shipwrecks from the era of the Great Discoveries now lie at the bottom of the ocean abyss or in shallow bays.

The Cederberg Mountains in South Africa provide rugged terrain with ancient rock art sites to explore along the way. The ...

The Namib Desert, stretching along the Atlantic coast of southern Africa, isn’t just a vast, empty wasteland. A few years ago, archaeologists made an astonishing discovery there — a 16th-century ...

Evidence of human life in the Gobi Desert 8,000 years ago has been found, thanks to the analysis of an ancient dry lake in ...

A poem, entitled “Christmas on the Desert” by Lucy Costello, appeared in the Palm Springs Villager Magazine and made note of the inherent incongruity. Indeed. For the more than the 100 years Palm ...