The site’s design was built to adapt to the unique peninsula site and environment, utilizing features like zigzagging walls.

Archaeologists identified the tomb owners by reading titles carved on walls and lintels. The names are Amun-em-Ipet from the ...

After breaking the record for the fastest crossing of the Great Sand Sea last March 5, Egyptian adventurer Hesham Nessim plans to set another record on November 2009 in the Western Desert driving from ...

Most foreign visitors to Egypt stick to the Nile Valley or the Red Sea coast, but that's to miss the bulk of this huge country – the deserts that stretch westwards from the river to the Libyan border.

In an effort to attract more international tourists, the Egyptian Tourism Authority announced the opening of the Grand ...

CAIRO — Thirty years ago, the herds of gazelle roaming the sands of Egypt’s Western Desert were so vast that when the turn of a car’s ignition startled them, they would run off in a column almost as ...

Soldiers who died together in Egypt during World War II fighting in North Africa in what is seen as one of the most decisive battles of the war. (Photo courtesy Kathlyn Clore) It’s impossible to serve ...

A 2008 Google Earth search led to the discovery of Kamil crater, one of the best-preserved meteorite impact sites ever found. Earlier this year, a gritty, sand-blown expedition reached the site deep ...

Cairo does not appear interested in invading Gaza or neighboring Israel. Instead, the tanks’ presence is a show of force, intent on keeping large refugee flows of Palestinian Arabs out of their ...

An American paleontologist and a team of Egyptians have reported finding the nearly complete fossilized skeleton of a primitive whale in Egypt's Western Desert. Philip Gingerich of the University of ...

Photographer Osama Fathi has produced a pair of breathtaking images showing the dramatic transformation of the moon during ...