What it tells us about the past: Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was not the dry, sandy landscape we know it as today — it was a lush, green oasis. In fact, the sandstone-rich Gilf ...

Remains of their burials have been found within the caves. The "Cave of Swimmers" is located in southwestern Egypt in an area ...

Wadi Sura is seen from the entrance of the Cave of the Swimmers, discovered in 1933 on the plateau of Gilf Kebir, in southwestern Egypt. Gilf Kebir had been identified before the Zerzura Club ...

In 1926, the remote area was mapped by European cartographer László Almásy who stumbled upon two "side-by-side shallow caves" adorned with hundreds of rock paintings of animals and humans ...

The "Cave of Swimmers" is located in southwestern Egypt in an area that is now arid and has relatively little plant and animal life. The cave gets its name from rock art that depicts people who ...