Let nature be your guide as you immerse in the beauty of our desert wilds. Here are six places to enjoy the outdoors.

Amethyst was fashionable in the Middle Kingdom. Archaeologists discovered jewelry belonging to Middle Kingdom queens and princesses in pyramids at a site called Dahshur around 25 miles south of Cairo.

It has been more than 40 years since the Pintupi Nine made contact with the modern world. Much has changed in their lives, but their country has never stopped calling them home.

the small California desert city that’s home to 30,000 residents and the country’s largest Marine Corps base, has long been a bit quieter than the heavily visited towns of Joshua Tree and ...

JOSHUA TREE — Well over 200 people gathered on the four corners of Park Boulevard and Twentynine Palms Highway Saturday to protest the firing of national park rangers and any future cuts to the ...

In most games, this is represented as a skill tree, which allows the player to allocate points to increasingly potent abilities and upgrades as they progress through the game. It's a simple way to ...

Sudan produces around 80 percent of the world’s gum arabic, a natural substance harvested from acacia trees that’s widely used to mix, stabilize and thicken ingredients in mass-market products ...

Acacia, gum and palm trees once shielded the neighbourhood from ... the city's libraries and manuscripts from the incoming desert. Though some have been replanted, there's little sign that it ...

1 The Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Masada National Park, Mount Masada, Israel. 2 Eilat Campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Hatmarim Blv, Eilat, Israel. 3 Arava Institute for ...

Some gravestones stand tall and pristine. But deeper into the cemetery, amid a tangle of maple, birch and acacia trees, more and more bend under the weight of time and neglect. Their inscriptions ...