After Egypt’s 1952 revolution, President Gamal Abdel Nasser embraced plans for the Aswan High Dam, an earth-fill embankment 111 metres high and 3.5 kilometres long. Begun in 1960 with Soviet ...

Stepping up to the table, the tourist squinted to make out what lay underneath the dusty glass top. “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GAME, ...

Our eight-day cruise hit many highlights: the extensive temples at Karnak and Luxor; the colossal statues of Ramses II ...

An itinerary that spans Cairo, Luxor, Edfu, Aswan, and Abu Simbel — the classic heavyweights of Egyptian tourism — feels like your sixth-grade ancient civilizations textbook has leapt off the ...

Optional add-ons on a Nile cruise can include afternoon tea at the 19th-century Old Cataract Hotel, though on one particular day it surprisingly lacked elegance and good service, and a visit to the ...

Tourism, climate change, redevelopment and nature threaten the existence of some of the world’s most amazing sites, but – ...

A fairytale-like castle, a sunken port city in the Caribbean, and mysterious cave paintings: Which of these places will be ...

Mamdani’s progressive platform, focused on addressing affordability in one of the world’s most expensive cities resonated with voters, earning him 43.5% of the vote.

The success of the international cooperation to save Abu Simbel raised awareness about the fact that all over the world there are places of outstanding universal value. Just like the Nile valley ...

Standing before the giant statues of Ramses II at Abu Simbel is an incredible experience. This 3,000-year-old temple complex in southern Egypt was commissioned by Ramses II not just as a temple to ...