The Eye of the Sahara is a geological marvel, but it also holds archaeological significance, according to Geographical, a magazine published by the U.K.'s Royal Geographical Society. Excavations ...

For millennia, the Eye of the Sahara was hiding in plain sight. That's because this huge and mysterious geologic formation is hard to spot from ground level, walking around on Earth. It turns out ...

The same is true for the Eye of the Sahara. Astronauts love to observe the Eye of the Sahara from space because it looks like the landing site of a 40-kilometer wide flying saucer. The truth is a ...

When viewed from above, the Eye of the Sahara looks just like an enormous impact crater sitting in the middle of the Sahara Desert of Mauritania. Stretching 50 kilometers (30 miles) in diameter ...

Photo courtesy of JAXA/ESA A massive circular rock formation marks the desert in Mauritania like a target—it’s the “Eye of the Sahara.” Easier seen from above than from the ground, the Richat ...

utopian society — claim the Eye of the Sahara is evidence of the city described by Plato in his "Timaeus" and "Critias" dialogues. But "together, modern archaeology and geology provide an ...

It shouldn't be too difficult: the thing is 30 miles wide. Also known as the Eye of the Sahara, the Richat Structure is thought to be a heavily eroded circular symmetrical uplift — that is ...