Egypt has experienced rapid population growth in recent decades. Between 1986 to 2018, the number of people in the country ...

Here, on the plateau of Giza, 2,300,000 blocks of stone, some weighing as much as 9 tons, were used ... beneath the desert sands revise our understanding of ancient Egypt. This web site will ...

In her 1877 book, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, she writes of the hot drive to the edge of the desert ... Pyramids were originally faced. Imhotep bronze statuette (left) from Egypt’s late ...

Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Sifting through the sands of the Egyptian desert, archaeologists ... Two of these ancient tombs were made of mud bricks.

[AFP] In early winter, the warm sun bathes the desert hinterland of Kom Ombo, some 60 kilometers north of Aswan Province in Upper Egypt. Against the vast arid landscape, patches of lush green ...

On July 21, 1798, after marching two weeks across the desert, Bonaparte’s armies ... Bonaparte and 35,000 soldiers were trapped in Egypt. YOUSSEF: The only link that he had with France were ...

One of the Arab world’s most populous countries, its teeming cities and much of its agricultural activity are concentrated along the banks of the Nile, while the rest of the country is mostly desert.