lie half-covered in the sand – a sight as "astonishing" as any in Egypt. We drove over dunes, and passed through the Black Desert (where the hills are "charred" with basalt) and the White Desert ...

Along the Nile River, the Temple of Seti I and the Dendera Temple of Hathor reflect Egypt’s deep cultural heritage. For natural beauty, the White Desert and the Red Sea offer some of the most ...

I was about to land in Siwa, an oasis in Egypt that includes a town of ... than I could fit into my three-day stay: hikes up White Mountain, desert 4 x 4 drives; dips in salt lakes; and excursions ...

Farafra is said to be Egypt’s most isolated oasis. It’s the entry point to the enigmatic White Desert, which looks like the surface of a moon in an alternate universe. In some areas ...

“There’s something very special about the desert ... the Egyptian Wilderness,” in the early 1980s. The depth of perspective in the canyon is astonishing, especially when cottony white ...

Egypt is full of ancient wonders but few are ... charred outcrops and stands of quartz. Further on, in the White Desert, the Sahara suddenly became a world of limestone and soft white chalk ...

Gingerich, Philip D. "Wadi Al-Hitan or 'Valley of Whales' – an Eocene World Heritage Site in the Western Desert of Egypt." Geological Society, London, Special Publications, vol. 543, no. 1 ...

In short, the image is indeed an authentic photo depicting a roughly 37-million-year-old fossilized whale skeleton at Wadi Al-Hitan, a site in Egypt's Western Desert whose Arabic name translates ...