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The White Desert is a chalk landscape in Egypt's Western Desert near the Farafra Oasis. Windblown sand has eroded the pale rock into isolated towers, pinnacles, and rounded forms that contrast with the surrounding desert floor. It lies within White Desert National Park and is visited for its unusual...
The Desert Whitetail is a dragonfly species endemic to the American Southwest, notably adapted to survive in arid environments and ephemeral desert streams.
Dakhla Oasis is a group of settlements and cultivated areas in Egypt's Western Desert, between the oases of Farafra and Kharga. Archaeological evidence records occupation across prehistoric, pharaonic, Roman, Christian, and Islamic periods, reflecting the oasis's long role as a habitable and agricul...
Kharga Oasis is the largest of the principal oases in Egypt's Western Desert and the administrative center of New Valley Governorate. It lies along an ancient north-south route that connected the Nile Valley with settlements and trade networks farther into Africa. Its archaeological sites include th...
The Shooting is a 1966 American Western directed by Monte Hellman and written by Carole Eastman. Warren Oates plays a former bounty hunter who joins an enigmatic woman and a hired gun on a journey across an austere desert landscape; Jack Nicholson co-produced the film and appears as the gunman. Its...
A fertile depression in Egypt's Western Desert, renowned for the Valley of the Golden Mummies discovered in 1996, which yielded thousands of Greco-Roman gilded mummies.
Egypt's smallest and most isolated Western Desert oasis, situated adjacent to the White Desert national park, known for its surreal eroded chalk-rock formations.
Volcanic landscape of basalt-dusted black hills near Bahariya oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, formed by ancient lava flows and subsequent wind erosion.
Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae) is a small avian species belonging to the Trochilidae family, native to the arid regions of the southwestern United States. The bird is highly adapted to desert environments, particularly thriving in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. It was named in honor of the Fr...
In the far future, war has destroyed the entire Earth, leaving only a barren wasteland where the supply of water is controlled by the greedy king. In search of a long-lost lake, Sheriff Rao asked the king of the demons for help...and got the king's son, Beelzebub, and his assistant, Thief. Together...
Remote oasis in Egypt's Western Desert near the Gilf Kebir plateau, historically used as a waypoint by desert caravans and early 20th-century explorers.
