An ancient trading post known for housing some of West Africa's most historically significant manuscripts could soon be ...

An ancient trading post known for housing some of West Africa's most historically significant manuscripts could soon be ...

Mauritania (AP) — For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of manuscripts. But ...

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP ... Shifting sands have long covered the ancient city's 8th-century core and are encroaching on neighborhoods at its current edge. Residents say the desert is ...

The stunning city of poets and scholars that’s vanishing into the desert - A city surrounded by an ocean of sand that’s ...

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania — For centuries ... Shifting sands have long covered the ancient city’s 8th-century core and are encroaching on neighborhoods at its current edge.

Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest ...

What are the main theories about the true nature and location of Atlantis? Was it on Sardinia, Crete, Africa, or was it just ...

Feb. 14, 2025 — Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study, revealing new details about mumification ...