Elsewhere, the Foreign Office advises against all travel to within 20km of the border with Libya, which is on the western ...

Egypt is often known for its ancient history, vast deserts, and famous landmarks like the Pyramids of Giza - but now it’s ...

Did you know whales evolved from a land-based animal into an ocean-going mammal? To explore the evidence, we need to look at the desert, which may seem strange when discussing whales. The ocean once ...

Few travelers venture into that 90 percent. The vast Western Desert, which blends into Libya and beyond, is Egypt’s great unknown. Adventurers since Alexander the Great have braved the harsh ...

Ancient kingdoms, over and over, imagined they would “rule everything under the heavens”. PREMIUM The remarkable Terracotta Army was crafted during the Qin dynasty, in the 3rd century BCE.

The Step Pyramid rises taller than a 20‑story building on the edge of Egypt’s desert plateau, about 15 miles south of the modern sprawl of Giza. Built roughly 4,650 years ago, it was the first ...

More 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.

Twenty miles south of Cairo, on the Nile's west bank, where riverfed crop fields give way to desert, the ancient site of Saqqara is marked by crumbling pyramids that emerge from the sand like ...

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the tomb belonged to remains a mystery.

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C.