Researchers find ancient rock art with paintings of whales and sharks in the desert
A dramatic scene has been found by experts exploring the Atacama Desert in Chile as they have come across hundreds of pieces of stunning 1,500yewar-old-rock...
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The Atacama desert of Chile hides a massive hand protruding from the ground
It’s as if a giant was buried beneath the Atacama Desert, reaching for the sky asking for help. It’s called the hand of the desert...
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Meet Qasr al-Farid—carved out of a single rock, and abandoned in the middle of the desert
In the arid desert landscape of northern Saudi Arabia, an ancient tomb carved from a single rock rises to a height of about four to...
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The Sahara was ‘green’ for over 6,000 years and had 10 times more rain than now
According to a new study recently published in the journal Science Advances, evidence shows that humans occupied much of the Sahara during the ‘wet period’ around...
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Archaeologists discover 24 new lines at Nazca
A team of Japanese archaeologists discovered 24 new geoglyphs in Peru’s Nazca Desert, which could be among the oldest in this area according to researchers...