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

I was about to land in Siwa, an oasis in Egypt that includes a town ... which resembled a fortress made of sand in Egypt’s Western Desert. The hotel was in Siwa, a place that, he explained ...

A tourist visits Wadi Al-Hitan or Whale Valley in the desert of Fayoum ... century A.D. Under the caliphate, the oasis reverted to agrarianism. (Egypt is one of our 25 best places to visit ...

Christian monasticism began in the Egyptian desert: in the 4th century ... and the "splendid" Adrère Amellal in Siwa, the lush oasis town where Alexander, setting out to conquer the known ...

The oasis is being constructed in the middle ... with multiple generations of new urban projects expanding far into the desert surrounding Cairo. Egypt’s New Capital is the latest of these ...

A designer and an environmentalist have created a retreat that surrenders to the desert. The entrance to Tamazid, the environmentalist Mounir Neamatalla’s home in Egypt’s Siwa Oasis ...

The oasis’s 400 natural hot-and-cold springs and Roman-era wells offer a refreshing rinse after a desert exploration. Kharga is the “Little Italy” of ancient Egypt. The Romans conquered the ...