‘Desertification is our destiny’: How this ancient African city is being buried under Sahara sand

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti, a historical hub for poets, scholars, and theologians and home to thousands of ...
PBS

The North African Desert Campaign in WWII

The cast and crew describe how they shot those North African desert scenes. The cast and crew of Season 2 describe how they approached designing the sets and filming the North African desert scenes, ...
The Conversation

African archaeology has neglected Namibia’s deserts, but scientists now know when an ancient lake supported human life in the Namib Sand Sea

Abi Stone received funding from the Quaternary Research Association of the United Kingdom and the University of Manchester. The work reported here also received funding (to collaborator Dr George ...
PBS

Episode One

The story of the founding of the SAS in the heat of the North African desert in 1941. The story of the founding of the SAS in the heat of the North African desert in 1941. David Archibald Stirling is ...
CNN

The gigantic dunes rising up out of the world’s oldest desert

For those who find themselves awed by arid landscapes, there’s no place like Africa. The continent boasts nine separate deserts, including a vast Sahara that sprawls across much of the north, the rust ...