ChinguettiLegend A caravan town founded in AD 777, re-founded in the thirteenth century as a fortified stop for trans-Saharan caravans, and once the gathering place where pilgrims of the Maghreb met to cross to Mecca; it is sometimes called the... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Richat StructureLegend A bullseye 40 km across in the middle of the Sahara, so regular that it was used as a landmark from orbit long before anyone agreed what it was. The obvious guess was an impact crater and the obvious guess was wrong: there is no... Open it on the map · Read the story
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