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500-Year-Old Treasure Ship Found in the Namibian Desert, Filled With Gold, Ivory and Precious Artifacts

In 2008, miners sifting through the sands of Namibia’s Sperrgebiet — a restricted diamond mining zone near the Skeleton Coast — stumbled upon what looked like wooden beams and rusted metal. What they ...
Forbes

Namibia’s Desert Is Entrancing And So Is This New, Modern Lodge

It’s a startling juxtaposition. Outdoors in Namibia’s NamibRand Nature Reserve in the southwest section of the Namib Desert are gravel plains bordered by ancient granite mountains and burnt orange ...
Wired

Fragile Namibian deserts 'damaged' by Mad Max film crew

Namibian environmental groups are furious with the makers of the new Mad Max film, claiming they they've seriously damaged the fragile ecosystem of the Namib Desert -- a region that is undergoing ...
CNN

Desert elephants are finding friends in the drylands of Namibia

Think of African elephants and you might picture them wandering among open grasslands or making their homes in forests. But in northwest Namibia, amidst an arid landscape of rocky mountains, sand, and ...
Business Insider

I photographed Namibia's remote desert after ultra rare rains transformed it into an oasis. It's a trip I'll never forget.

Intense sun and wind make Namibia a dry, dusty place. But once-in-a-decade rainfall transformed it into a green oasis, which I photographed on a 5,600-mile road trip in 2021. With about 17% of the ...
NPR

'Mad Max' Is Mad About Namibia, But Some Namibians Are Mad At The Crew

Crimson sand dunes, cracked desert floors, big open skies and landscapes that look like paintings — it's no wonder why Namibia was name-checked four times at the Academy Awards for helping Mad Max: ...