Saharan salt caravans ply ancient route
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TICHIT, Mauritania  - Caught between an encroaching sea of sand and a towering rocky plateau, Tichit has been a staging post for more than nine centuries for camel caravans snaking across the Sahara.
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Men driving donkey carts to the market and refugees crouching in the shade finally have something to break the boredom of life in this arid Darfur border village &#151; news, hip-hop and Arabic music coming in on cranky transistor radios.
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The remains of a prehistoric town believed to date back 15,000 years and belong to an ancient Berber civilization have been discovered in Western Sahara, Moroccan state media said on Thursday.
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Egypt on Monday showed off some of the 619 ancient artifacts smuggled out of the country in the late 1990s and repatriated from London last week.
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A massive herd of animals thought to have been wiped out by decades of civil war in Southern Sudan has survived against the odds and could be one of the largest migrations of large mammals on the planet.
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LIMA, Peru  - While workers at Peru's huge Camisea  energy project were busy laying the high-tech gas pipeline from  the southern jungle to Lima earlier this year, archeologists in  the area were marveling at something a little less  state-of-the-art: ceramics.
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Sutherland, South Africa - It&#39;s a 60-mile drive off the main highway in South Africa&#39;s Northern Cape to this 19th century wool-producing town, but the desert landscape is so desolate it can feel as if the distance is 6,000 miles. The narrow ...
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LEAL, Sudan -- On this parched and dusty African plain, China's largest energy company is pumping crude oil, sending it 1,000 miles upcountry through a Chinese-made pipeline to the Red Sea, where tankers wait to ferry it to China's industrial cities. Chinese laborers based in a camp of prefabricated sheds work the wells and lay highways across the flats to ...
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TETOUAN, Morocco -- In the Arab world, this hilly North African city is about as far as you can get from Iraq. But for many young men here, the call to join what they view as a holy war resonates loudly across the 3,000-mile divide.
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A 41-foot raft made of reeds and wooden planks set out Wednesday on voyage from New York to Spain, a daring and perhaps foolhardy attempt to prove people in the Stone Age could have crossed the Atlantic.
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Pilgrim buses clog a road just outside the Old City of Damascus. Partly to solve that nuisance, municipal planners want to carve a highway through a historic but neglected quarter of the Syrian capital.
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Beginning about 700,000 years ago, ancient humans were driven off the British Isles seven times by the approach of cold weather, according to new archaeological evidence.
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For five years, Paul James hitched,  trekked and drove to get away from his native West Africa. He  survived the Sahara, begged on the streets of Morocco and  crossed the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy to reach what he  thought was the promised land.
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Scientists have discovered the underground remnants of an ancient lake in Sudan's arid Darfur region, offering hope of tapping a precious resource and easing water scarcity, which experts say is the root of much of the unrest in the region.
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Archaeologists exploring the bottom of the sea off the island of Capri have found the wrecks of three ancient ships that once plied the Mediterranean between Rome and northern African colonies.
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Forty years is a long time. It&#39;s a long time if you&#39;re in the desert with Moses -- by Biblical reckoning, the first man to fail to ask for directions -- and it&#39;s a long time
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TASTUPEK, Kazakhstan -- In the cool of one recent evening, after tending to his herd of 19 camels, Puzblay Seytpembetov and four companions pushed his small single-engine boat out onto the placid waters of the Aral Sea to lay fishnets. In the morning, he predicted, he would haul in flapping carp ...