On November 4, 1922, workers led by British archaeologist Howard Carter noticed a single stair peeking out from beneath the shifting Egyptian sand. Within three weeks, Carter and his team had ...

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 ...

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

Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb of an unknown pharaoh beneath around 20 feet of sand at the Abydos archaeological site.

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 ...

It features sand sculptures made by Sand In Your Eye, including the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Great Sphinx of Giza, and a bust of Ramesses III, with each one 800kg in weight and 1.7 metres tall.

Egyptian embalming is thought to have started in the Predynastic Period or even earlier, when people noticed that the arid heat of the sand tended to dry and preserve bodies buried in the desert.

Ahram Online, Wednesday 19 Oct 2022. Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has called on private sector companies to engage in projects to extract heavy economic metals from black sand.