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

Outside of Europe, Egypt was known for its complex societies in the same time period, but the western coast of the Mediterranean Sea was long thought of as an “empty land,” void of permanent ...

Shifting sands have long covered the ancient city's 8th-century core and ... Chinguetti is one of four UNESCO World Heritage sites in Mauritania, a West African nation where only 0.5% of land ...

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries ... 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 ...

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 ...

(AP Photo/Khaled Moulay) CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP ... Shifting sands have long covered the ancient city's 8th-century core and are encroaching on neighborhoods at its current edge.

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries ... 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 ...

Louis Hansel via Unsplash Much of what we know about the Bronze Age, a period between 2200 B.C and 800 B.C., is thanks to evidence left behind by ancient ... Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia ...