 In 2007, while processing microwave space data (radar imagery), she discovered an ancient Mega-Lake (30,750 km²) buried beneath the sand of the Great Sahara in Northern Darfur, Sudan.Eman Ghoneim graduated with an honor degree and received her master's degree from the Geography Department at Tanta University, Egypt in 1997.She was awarded her Ph.D. degree in Geography from the Geography Department at the University of Southampton, UK in 2002.