Saltwater Lakes in Siwa Oasis, Egypt Have Such a High Concentration of Salt That Makes It Impossible to Sink Some places are ...

I was about to land in Siwa, an oasis in Egypt that includes a town of 20,000 people, a few historically significant sites, and a handful of small hotels. It lies about 350 miles west of Cairo as ...

The entrance to Tamazid, the environmentalist Mounir Neamatalla’s home in Egypt’s Siwa Oasis, like the rest of the building, was constructed from kershef, a traditional building material made ...

The isolated oasis of Siwa, thirty miles east of the Libyan border in Egypt’s Western Desert, has featured throughout history as a site of desire and contest. If its old "Mountain of the Dead ...

the oasis reverted to agrarianism. (Egypt is one of our 25 best places to visit in 2023. See the full list here.) Fishermen stand next to their boats along the shore at Lake Qarun. Photograph by ...

CAIRO – CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's antiquities department announced Wednesday the discovery of a 3,500-year-old settlement in a desert oasis, showing the existence of vibrant desert trade routes ...

The journey to the Siwa Oasis isn’t enjoyable. Hours are spent in a car covering hundreds of kilometers of flat, barren desert. If you’re not careful, you can easily fall prey to boredom and ...

CAIRO — Egypt has discovered the mummy of a woman dating back to the Roman era in a newly uncovered complex of tombs in a desert oasis. Archaeologist Mahmoud Afifi, who headed the dig ...

From an Egyptian oasis to a yurt in Tromsø: travel writers’ discoveries of 2023 on facebook (opens in a new window) From an Egyptian oasis to a yurt in Tromsø: travel writers’ discoveries of ...

ABINGTON – An “Egyptian oasis” straight out of “Aladdin” has found its way into Abington, bringing a twist of northern African and Mediterranean cuisine and freshly baked treats and hot ...

the result of increasingly frequent heat waves in this central Egyptian oasis that lies to the west of the Nile. In recent years, the changing weather patterns have helped give rise to pests that ...