Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures ...

A journey into Egypt's western desert. The Week UK. Sat, May 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM UTC. 2 min read. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.

The Sahara Desert is the world's biggest and most iconic desert. It's most easily visited in Morocco, ... from the rocky black desert in western Egypt to an immense salt lake in Tunisia.

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria, and to the west of Mauritania – has become an "intricate" and ...

A deadly attack on the police in Egypt's Western Desert claimed by a new militant group risks opening up another front for security forces far beyond the remote northern Sinai, where they have ...

Vertebra of 98 million-year-old dinosaur discovered in Egypt's Western desert . It is the oldest known fossil of the species found in northeastern Africa. By Hatem Maher. June 9, 2022, 6:30 PM.

“In this part of the Sahara Desert, there aren’t really borders, it’s open land,” says Gaici Nah, from the Sahrawi Mine Action Coordination Office, of the area between the Western Sahara ...

National Air and Space Museum Geologist Ted Maxwell and colleagues recently spotted evidence of the lake while studying radar data of Egypt taken by the Space Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Using ...

Christian monasticism began in the Egyptian desert: in the 4th century, St Anthony – later known as the "father of all monks" – went there to live in an empty tomb, and was tempted by the devil.