Researchers have used more than two decades of satellite-derived environmental data to form hypotheses about the possible foraging habitats of pre-contact Aboriginal peoples living in Australia's ...

Far from his home in New South Wales, Tim Klingender is being mourned in Central Australia, where he forged his legacy and many friendships. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are ...

Paleo-archaeologists are beginning to iron out the timeline of human habitation in Australia. Last year, using new techniques to date human artifacts, researchers confirmed a theory first proposed in ...

Wadi El-Hitan in Egypt’s Western Desert contains hundreds of fossilized whale skeletons dating back around 37 million years.

For decades, Diane Sherwood has carried a box of tapes she recorded with the Aboriginal great grandmother of her adopted daughter. Now, two generations later, a remarkable oral history of a ...

Africa’s Namib Desert is a harsh and unforgiving place, home to shifting, barren sand dunes, jagged mountains, and gravel plains. The vast desert — whose name means “place of no people” in the local ...

The collapse into administration of Western Desert Resources is rightly received as a financial canary for Australia’s once robust junior iron ore miners. But, for all that the Northern Territory ...

HOUSTON, July 7-- Apache Corp., Houston, Monday reported the "most-significant discovery" to date in Egypt's Western Desert with its Qasr-1X discovery well, which tested at a combined rate of 51.8 ...

Italian major Eni has made three new oil and gas discoveries on its Meleiha concession in Egypt’s Western Desert. The latest finds add 8500 barrels of oil equivalent per day to its production in the ...

The Darwin-based miner, which floated in 2007, appointed Korda Mentha as administrators late on Friday after Macquarie Group decided not to extend a debt facility that was already drawn down by just ...