He was drawn to the Kalahari Desert in South Africa ... An unlikely individual who combed the desert in search of this lost city was none other than the grandfather of Elon Musk.

celebrities in their time for their expeditions to find the Lost City of the Kalahari, which legends held was located somewhere in southern Africa's Kalahari Desert. In 1948, at age 45 ...

In the 1950s, he rode a motorcycle from Cape Town to Cairo, followed the Nile to its Blue and White tributary sources and searched for the Lost City of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. If the city ...

The sands of the desert are an important and forgotten storehouse of carbon dioxide taken from the world's atmosphere. Sands like those in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana are full of cyanobacteria.