How this ancient African city is being buried under Sahara sand - The ancient city of Chinguetti is succumbing to a sea of ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally ...

Chinguetti, Mauritania is home to some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts. It could soon be swallowed by the sand.

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I had a wretched journey across the Sahara desert. Only the thought of the famous ... From the 1950s many African countries won their independence. Today, the ancient kingdom of Benin is part ...

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Residents, seemingly resigned to their fate, speak of the desert as an inevitable destiny ... mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts, covering ...