It wasn’t what the miners had come for. In Namibia’s far southwest, near the edge of the Atlantic, workers clearing sand in a high-security diamond concession struck something unexpected. Timbers.

In August 2024, the Jasper House Museum in Oranjemund, Namibia, unveiled a new exhibition dedicated to the artifacts recovered from the Bom Jesus, a 500-year-old Portuguese shipwreck discovered in the ...

In the sandy hell of Namibia'sSperrgebiet desert, time seems to have crystallized. This 26,000 km2 territory, controlled since 1908 by the German colonial authorities and then by diamond giant De ...