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Adventure leads to an uncertain journey into desert
Bamako :: Mali | 3 days ago
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Every Tuesday Kathy Hank's Kansas Journal tells someone's story. This week she has a story to tell. In the distance I could see two Tuareg tents with a small campfire burning between them. The sun was setting on the Sahel region, just south of the Sahara...
Tags: Sahara Desert, tour guide, sand dune, Mali, Bamako, Palearctic, Timbuktu, Tuareg, Communes of Mali, Hospitality Recreation, Berber people, Sahara, Deserts and xeric shrublands
Fossil hunters unearth galloping, dinosaur-eating crocodiles in Sahara
Washington :: DC :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility Todd Marshall/National Geographic Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of primitive crocodiles that "galloped" on land and patrolled the broad rivers that coursed through north Africa one hundred million years ago. The skeletons of five creatures...
Tags: Sahara Desert, Saharan, ancient crocodiles, Africa, crocodiles species, McGill University in Montreal, Washington, Crocs, fashion, Crocodile, Dune, Crocodiles, Crocodylidae, Boulder County Colorado, Environment, Paul Sereno, Dinosaur, Sarcosuchus, Suchomimus, Baryonyx, Anatosuchus, Reptiles, Crocodilia
Are these the bones of a legendary Persian army lost in the Sahara 2,500 years ago?
The remains of a legendary 50,000-strong army which was swallowed up in a cataclysmic sandstorm in the Sahara Desert 2,500 years ago are believed to have been found. Italian archaeologists Angelo and Alfredo Castiglioni, twin brothers, have discovered...
Tags: Italy, Egypt, Achaemenid Empire, lost army, Cambyses II of Persia, Sahara Desert, Siwa Oasis, Siwa, Cyrus the Great, Mr Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni, Alfredo Castiglioni, Dario Del Bufalo, allnews, New York City, Alexander the Great, Ancient history, Herodotus, Oracle, Persian King Cambyses II, Dust storm
Legendary Lost Persian Army Found in Sahara
Rome :: NY :: USA | 24 days ago
Credibility Twin brothers Angelo and Alfredo Castiglioni are hopeful that they've finally found the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Cambyses II and his armied were buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C. He...
Tags: sahara desert, Sahara, persian army, Persian
Green ..green...green desert Sahara is going to green.
At world's largest North African Sahara Desert ,there was rare time to see a view of greenery far from farthest. Now,here the things are going to change since quite some time,and now here we can see the unique colors of greenery . Now I can...
Tags: Sahara desert
The World's LARGEST 'Solar' Project...
Desertec Foundation (a Jordianian/German Company) is planning the worlds largest Solar project - it will cover three tenths of one percent of the Sahara Desert and provide enough energy to power all of Europe... They estimate that if they covered One...
Tags: Solar Power, Sahara Desert, Desalinization, Wind Farms
Europeans Seek Solar Power in Sahara
Munich :: Germany | 4 months ago
Credibility Munich Re AG and 11 other European companies signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a pioneering solar-power initiative that would feed electricity to Europe from the Sahara. The Desertec Industrial Initiative is aimed at developing a road map...
Tags: Europe, solar power, Middle East, Munich Re, Siemens, Desertec Industrial Initiative, RWE, North Africa, electricity needs, Sahara Desert
Ummm…Is there room for one more at the back?
Imagine yourself standing bare feet on the hot burning sand under the scorching sun in the middle of Sahara Desert and you are waiting for your transport to take you home. What comes in front of your sight is no mirage but a transport...
Tags: Migrant workers, commuters, Sahara Desert, Africa’s poorest states, Niger, Mali, Libya
Sahara floods kill 30 in Algeria
Algiers :: Algeria | about 1 year ago
Credibility The government previously said 13 people had been killed in the floods, which have damaged some 600 homes, many of them in oasis areas. A local resident reached by telephone by AFP suggested the toll could indeed be higher in the Algerian region following...
Tags: Algeria, Ghardaia, Sahara Desert, flash flooding, algeria flooding, Algiers, APS, interior minister, official aps, Yazid Zerhouni
Freed Hostages Recount Chaotic Release in Sahara
Cairo :: Egypt | about 1 year ago
Credibility A European tour group kidnapped in the Sahara Desert was abruptly freed after a phone call to one of the captors, and all 19 hostages piled into a single car, some clinging to the roof as they drove 200 miles to safety. The accounts Tuesday by the freed...
Tags: Egyptian, Sahara Desert, egyptians guides, Berlin, Turin, Sudanese Army, Cairo, italians hostages, europeans tourist
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