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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to experts, if the Sinai Peninsula was inhabited, it could unload the Egyptian cities. Now it is a barren desert, crisscrossed by mountains. But once in its place was a green oasis with ...

It was in the spring of 331BC that Alexander unexpectedly arrived in the remote oasis of Siwa in Egypt’s western desert. World conquest was going swimmingly. He had defeated the Persian king at ...