Explore the greatest and most influential empires in world history, spanning over 45 centuries of civilization. In this first ...

Africa is home to some of the most iconic deserts in the world. From the towering dunes of the Namib to the salt flats of the ...

A Sahara Desert tour comes with its own challenges from heat, sun, and a lack of water. There are also a whole host of ...

Egypt's project to reclaim deserts in the south, called "Toshka", would expand Egypt's farmland by about 40 percent by 2017, using about five billion cubic metres of water a year.

The Eastern Sahara, a region the size of Western Europe that extends from Egypt into Libya, Sudan and Chad, is the world's largest warm, dry desert. Rainfall in the desert's centre averages less ...

Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures from land-based to marine animals.

An Egyptian-American team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new kind of large-bodied meat-eating dinosaur, or theropod, from a celebrated fossil site in Egypt's Sahara Desert. The ...