The ancient Roman city, Baelo Claudia, which can be visited and is close to the sand dune was discovered buried in the sand and dates back to 2nd Century BCE. At the archeological site ...

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti, a historical hub for poets, scholars, and theologians and home to thousands of manuscripts, is facing an existential threat from the encroaching desert.

This breakthrough has uncovered ancient ... hostile desert, holding secrets of lost civilisations buried under its seemingly endless dunes. This is the world's largest continuous sand desert ...

Shifting sands have long covered the ancient city's 8th-century core and are encroaching on neighbourhoods at its current edge. Residents say the desert is ... by an ocean of sand that’s advanci ...

As a plane soars over the high desert of southern Peru, the dull pale sameness of the rocks and sand organize and change ... with straight lines of both ancient and more modern origin.