While most tourists stick to the Nile valley, Stanley Stewart heads west into a land of oases, temples, monks and miracles ...

While the core essence of Eid remains the same—prayers, charity, and feasting—each country and culture brings its unique ...

These historical trade arteries connect cities and castles, palaces and pagodas and they provide easy transport routes ...

This stunning seaside city is the largest city on the Mediterranean coast and once stood as Egypt's capital city for almost a ...

Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of ...

Conflict still occurs over shared waters; however, since the late 1800s, and particularly since the end of World War II, cooperation has been the dominant interaction between countries in the world’s ...

Amethyst was fashionable in the Middle Kingdom. Archaeologists discovered jewelry belonging to Middle Kingdom queens and princesses in pyramids at a site called Dahshur around 25 miles south of Cairo.

The Egyptian Building in Chino Hills is a surprising strip mall restaurant made to look like the Abu Simbel temples in Egypt ...

The search for the pharaoh’s second tomb, after the discovery of the first, and the possibility that the Egyptologist’s ...

A deep dive into the Egyptian gods and goddesses (their characteristics, myths, and symbols) who held significant sway over ...

Sarah al-Awady says an Israeli quadcopter shot her in the head, leaving a bullet lodged behind her eye for 4 excruciating ...

Sofitel has opened the Sofitel Cairo Downtown Nile, expanding its presence in Egypt’s hospitality sector. This five-star hotel integrates French-inspired design with Egyptian cultural elements, ...