Paleogeneticists, it turns out, find the small wildcat just as elusive as field biologists. Compared with other domesticated ...

Egypt on Sunday unveiled plans for a vast new urban development west of Cairo where a man-made channel of the River Nile will ...

Seven thousand years ago, the Chinchorro people, along the Pacific coast of South America, began to mummify their dead. Their ...

Egypt announces a new desert city, diverting 7% of the Nile's water to upscale housing and agricultural developments. Facing water and power shortages, this innovative move aims to boost land value ...

Most visitors never experience the natural masterpieces that lie off the tourist trail—from bubbling hot springs to unearthly ...

For natural beauty, the White Desert and the Red Sea offer some of the most serene and stunning landscapes, perfect for relaxation and adventure. The wonders of Egypt, from the Colossi of Memnon ...

Built around 2650 B.C., it's considered Egypt's oldest pyramid and was built at a time when the Nile became "tame" enough to navigate. The pyramids of Giza now stand amid a desert landscape of ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its entrance more than 2,000 years ago, new excavations reveal. Archaeologists ...

Amid these "unfathomable distances" lie ancient Christian monasteries, oasis temples and thrillingly "surreal" landscapes ... monasticism began in the Egyptian desert: in the 4th century, St ...

Egypt's White Desert features surreal white chalk formations shaped by wind and sand, resembling alien landscapes, giant mushrooms, and icebergs. Known as the "Valley of the Moon," Wadi Rum’s ...