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 ...

I had come to Namibia because in late 2008 the government had proclaimed 5.4 million acres of its southwest coastline as Sperrgebiet National Park. With this, officials could say that nearly half ...

Namibia’s wild and rarely charted Atlantic coast offers a unique adventure for travelers, stretching hundreds of miles. Starting in Swakopmund, the country’s largest coastal city, visitors can ...

If anywhere in our over-explored world can still be called a wilderness, it’s the Skeleton Coast in northwest Namibia. The gates that mark the end of the public road at its southern boundary don ...

This occurred across Namibia, including on the coast: in Swakopmund and Lüderitz alone, more than 1,550 Nama died. The research agency Forensic Architecture has digitally reconstructed the camps ...

Those who remain are Namibia’s last nomads, and they have outlasted most other attempts to populate the desert. This part of the country is known as the Skeleton Coast, a none-too-subtle ...