Before petroleum was discovered in the late 1950s, the country was considered one of the poorest nations in the world.

+ Aswan is a stop on most Nile cruises, including the 7-night Luxor-Luxor voyage with CroisiEurope, a French operator that ...

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

With Israel and Hamas having reached a ceasefire agreement on January 15, 2025, which officially came into effect on January 19, 2025, the war has now ended. Meanwhile, our reporters have investigated ...

A spotted hyena has been reported in Egypt for the first time in thousands ... The wandering hyena was found last year deep in the Sahara desert, hundreds of miles north of the species' normal ...

To mark National Environment Day, Egypt has published a guide to help implement the 100 Million Trees initiative ...

Rather than permitting us to return to nearby Sicily, the Italian Coast Guard orders us to the port of Crotone to disembark ...

Meanwhile, in the middle of Egypt's Sinai desert, on the border with Gaza, the UAE has built a floating hospital, huge aid storage hangars and six desalination plants capable of supplying drinking ...

From Yemen came incense, aromatic plants such as ... The most direct route to Egypt lay along the coast, but Burckhardt chose a more difficult way, through the desert routes near the Dead Sea ...

A team of researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority has made a remarkable discovery in the arid lands of the Negev ...

In Exodus, God summons Ten Plagues against the Egyptians to free the Jews. Although some people view this story as … Continue ...