Although the Spanish Empire left mountains of paperwork in its wake, a catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and fire in November 1755 virtually wiped Lisbon off the map and sent the Casa da India ...

The brain of a fruit fly is smaller than a pinhead, but it still took scientists around 10 years to map the position ... which number in their millions and are found in the heart of the Namib Desert, ...

You are probably more than familiar with the map of the world today ... They found that this region would have resembled the modern-day Namib Desert in Africa or Lake Eyre Basin in Australia.

This is reportedly Africa’s first jazz festival to be held in the Namib Desert. Three stages will operate between Swakopmund and Walvis Bay. With a beach and desert experience, music lovers will ...

Make Sure You Bring: A good map. While the main hiking trail from Piedra Blanca due east tends to lead to crowded ...

This immense stretch of Namib Desert is, first and foremost, the domain of the creatures big and small that have long roamed its plains—oryx gazelles and springboks, giraffes and zebras ...

Its otherworldly landscapes include startling canyons, vast ever-changing sand dunes and Dead Vlei, an eerie 'dead marsh' in the central Namib Desert (pictured). Opposing southwest and north winds ...

The high-profile exhibition of large-scale art installations across the Coachella Valley has launched with fewer works this year. Here are the three standouts.

Yoko Yamanaka's Desert Of Namibia will be released by Kani Releasing on May 16 at Metrograph (New York), May 21 at Laemmle (Los Angeles), expanding nationally in select markets.

Mleiha may be a fairly unassuming small town surrounded by the dunes of the Sharjah desert, but the area around it is ...