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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SAIDIA, Morocco  - Ecologists say a tragedy is unfolding in north Africa where construction firms are moving in on some of the last unspoilt stretches of Mediterranean coastline in the search for profits.
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Ancient Americans were making elaborate meals with chilis thousands of years ago&#8212;sometimes even before the development of pottery&#8212;scientists say.
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Archaeologists say they have found a huge ancient settlement used by the people who built Stonehenge.
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RAS AL AIN, Morocco  - Farmers in this sun-parched Moroccan village have been waiting 50 years for drinking and irrigation water, electricity, hospitals and roads.
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In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show.
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COYO, Chile  - Deep within the wind-swept Atacama desert in northern Chile, the remnants of a forgotten civilization rise from the sand.
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A boat delivers food and water to a ship carrying migrants, anchored off the Mauritanian coast, officials say.
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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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Travel: Ed Douglas experiences an ancient way of life in the farms and villages of the Sinai desert on an 'ethical trek' that aims to safeguard the communities it visits.
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BAQUBAH, Iraq -- Inside the festival hall, on long tables covered with white cloth, Aboud Ahdim Abbas Mohammad saw a glimpse of the future: baskets filled with different kinds of ripe, delicious dates. They held the twin promise of reviving an ancient industry and Iraq's devastated economy.
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A new archaeological discovery suggests humans migrated to the hemisphere far earlier than previously thought.
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Perforated shells discovered in a limestone cave in eastern Morocco are the oldest adornments ever found and show humans used symbols in Africa 40,000 years before Europe, the kingdom&#39;s government said.
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Alexandria, the Egyptian  coastal city where Cleopatra had love affairs with Julius  Caesar and Mark Anthony, is trying to regain some of its old  glory as a tourism destination for European and Arab elites.
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Morocco's capital Rabat is rebuilding its seafront and in so doing uncovering a vast treasure trove of relics, artefacts and ruins.
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Some wore buckets on their heads, others swung sticks, and those who could sheltered indoors, praying for an end to the locust invasion which yesterday swept through Mauritania&#39;s capital, Nouakchott.
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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.