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Study Shows Long-Term Change in Vegetation Cover Along Intermittent River Using Drone and Landsat Imagery HANOVER, N.H. – Feb. 3, 2021 – In the Namib Desert in southwestern Africa, the Kuiseb River, an ephemeral river which is dry most of the year, plays a vital role to the region. It provides most of the vegetation to the area and serves as a home for the local indigenous people, and migration corridor for many animals. The overall vegetation cover increased by 33% between 1984 and 2019, according to a Dartmouth study published in  Mountain zebra near the Kuiseb River in the Namib Dese...

Credit: Photo by Oliver Halsey. In the Namib Desert in southwestern Africa, the Kuiseb River, an ephemeral river which is dry most of the year, plays a vital role to the region. It provides most of the vegetation to the area and serves as a home for the local indigenous people, and migration corridor for many animals. The overall vegetation cover increased by 33% between 1984 and 2019, according to a Dartmouth study published in The study leveraged recent drone imagery and past satellite imagery to estimate past vegetation cover in this linear oasis of the Kuiseb River, a fertile area in the...

Mummified Baboons Narrow Down The Mystery Location of an Ancient Fabled Land 19 DECEMBER 2020 The skulls of two baboons, mummified more than 3,000 years ago, have helped narrow down the location of a fabled "land of plenty", which once supplied ancient Egypt with gold, frankincense, myrrh and monkeys.   Known as the land of Punt, or 'God's land', this faraway fantastical realm may have actually existed outside its renowned mythology, despite no physical remnants of it having ever been found. Ancient writings and drawings from the time have many archaeologists convinced the land of Punt was...

For thousands of years, Egypt had a major trading partner known as Punt. Although the significance of Punt as a source of gold, ivory, and exotic timbers was well recorded, its exact location has been a mystery. Now that may have been solved, thanks to some mummified baboons. Egyptian records show a major trading expedition to Punt 4,500 years ago, and it appears gold had made its way between the kingdoms even earlier. Expeditions to Punt were celebrated in Egyptian art over thousands of years and form the basis of one of the oldest surviving hero's journey tales. The route there, however, is...

They identified a hamadryas baboon skull tucked away in the British Museum’s archives and think that the fossil that was discovered in Thebes ( Luxor) in the 19th century came from Punt. The results of their study, published on eLife , explains that they studied the chemical isotopes in the baboon’s tooth enamel to try to pinpoint the animal’s birthplace. The British Museum holds two mummified baboons with New Kingdom attributions. C. D.E. are images of the 3,300-year-old baboon skull. (The Trustees of the British Museum/ ) Isotopic analysis is a useful tool for this endeavor because...