The Sahara is the largest desert in the world, a vast arid wilderness stretching across north Africa. For millennia it has been a near insurmountable barrier separating the Mediterranean from the rest of the African continent. The ancient Egyptians, clustering along the shores of the Nile, depended on the desert for their defense. For them
The third Indiana Jones movie is arguably the best, and its climactic set piece features a wonder of the world. Known as the Khaznah el-Far’oun, or “treasury of the pharaoh” this rose red edifice carved into the rockface dates back to the 1st century AD. It has been known for some time that something lies