It's a city located in an oasis in the Sahara Desert, so its landscapes have served as an ideal setting for filming movies like The Mummy, Prince of Persia, and Spectre. However, the city's main attraction is its fossils, which its inhabitants use as a tourist draw and which exert a strong pull on paleontology enthusiasts. The most publicized are the dinosaur fossils of such famous species as Spinosaurus and the Trilobites.







