The world knows Egypt for the Pyramids of Giza and cosmopolitan ... Bahariya Oasis’s best feature is the Black Desert, a Martian landscape of ancient dead volcanoes. Miles of sand mountains ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) regional office in Cairo said on Saturday that the White Desert National ... that the national park was selected along ...

lie half-covered in the sand – a sight as "astonishing" as any in Egypt. We drove over dunes, and passed through the Black Desert (where the hills are "charred" with basalt) and the White Desert ...

In a year’s time, perhaps less, what also had been nothing but desert will shimmer with ... writer Robert Draper previously traveled to Egypt for National Geographic in 2007 to report on the ...