A giant patch of black, fossilized lava that was spewed across the Sahara desert ... of sand that have settled in between gaps in the lava catch the sunlight, which has created the golden speckles ...

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square ...

An ancient capital, lost under the sand for more ... Getty Images Once Egypt's largest city, it dates back to King Akhenaten’s father, Amenhotep III, who ruled during a golden age of the empire.

Their two-toed hoofs allow them to walk across sand without sinking ... States would fit into the Sahara, a desert shared with Morocco by the African nations of Egypt, Algeria, West Sahara ...