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 ...

The Sahara Desert, the world's largest hot desert, offers a unique landscape filled with adventure opportunities ...

Stunning drone footage taken this month reveals tourists enjoying the salt lakes and natural beauty of Egypt's Siwa Oasis.

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Expert on African Affairs Ramadan Kurani explains to Al-Ahram Weekly that the Egyptian foreign minister’s recent West Africa ...

Whale Valley is a region of the Egyptian Sahara desert that is peppered with archaic whale skeletons, some of which have feet and toes preserved.These skeletons and other marine fossils date to the ...

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 ...

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.