Ria was on a mission to run 550km across Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula ... “There were places with just sand dunes, where there was no path at all. Even the footprints would be blown away in no time.” As ...

Screenshot from Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities' Facebook post Archaeologists working at the Karnak temple complex in Luxor, Egypt, uncovered a broken pot containing gold and metal rings, ...

The sand that makes up the dunes had traveled too, migrating west from Egypt and Sudan. We were guided by an old French map that depicted the dunes as right parentheses, all pointing into the wind.

This giant sand dune in southern Spain is about 98 feet high ... the site was even used in The Crown series to film Princess Diana's visit to Egypt in 1992.