Around the World March 1, 2011
EGYPT
A 25,000-square-mile lake-- one of the largest in the world if it existed today--once waxed and waned in southern Egypt, 250 miles from the nile.
Features January 1, 2011
Cave of the Swimmers – Egypt
The Neolithic rock art at the Cave of the Swimmers, made popular by the 1996 film The English Patient, is being admired to death by tourists who feel compelled to touch the 10,000-year-old paintings.
Off the Grid November 1, 2010
El Kab, Egypt
Just a one-and-a-half-hour drive south of Luxor lies El Kab, one of the oldest settlements in Upper Egypt and home of the vulture goddess Nekbet. Archaeologist Salima Ikram of the American University in Cairo calls the city, known as Nekheb in ancient times, a "jewel of a site."