In 1999, after frequent trips to Egypt (her mother’s family is from Alexandria), Mahdavi chose to visit Siwa, an urban oasis (population 35,000) on the edge of the Great Sand Sea, a vast expanse ...

This sand is similar to that found in Egypt, suggesting that wetting the sand would have been a boon to ancient monument builders. The results also indicate that the pyramid builders had luck on their ...

A routine excavation has uncovered ancient walls surrounding the Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced Tuesday. The walls were likely built to protect the ...

In Egypt’s Western Desert, the ancient oasis of Siwa is home to one of the world’s most extraordinary hotels.

A line in the sand / 2,000-year-old Egyptian church trying to establish monastery near Dillon Beach is fought by ranchers, development foes. By Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer Aug 25, 2001.

Reporting from North Coast, Egypt — Kiki’s Beach Bar offers cool breezes and $14 designer cocktails. But good luck getting in — unless you’re famous, or, better yet, know someone who works ...

Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, economies and the environment ...

A newly found pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt has historians scrambling to ... Researchers suspect there will be much more evidence to uncover at the sprawling site buried under the hot Egyptian sand.

A week in the Egyptian desert with just the bare necessities and a spell of fasting may seem an odd sort of holiday. But to Gail Simmons it brought renewal and contentment.

Egypt - a State Built On Sand. Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS Host Photo Agency. President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi at the 2019 Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Russia, October 23, 2019.

FEATURE-Egypt erects sand barriers as rising sea swallows the Nile Delta. By Menna A. Farouk, Thomson Reuters Foundation. March 22, 2022 9:29 AM UTC Updated March 22, 2022 Summary ...