Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt. Posted: March 31, 2025 | Last updated: March 31, 2025 Did you know that there are massive whale skeletons under the sand in the Egyptian Sahara desert?

Most foreign visitors to Egypt stick to the Nile Valley or the Red Sea coast, but that's to miss the bulk of this huge country – the deserts that stretch westwards from the river to the Libyan ...

Animals in ancient Egypt were mummified for use as votive offerings ... where they naturally mummified in the dry desert heat. In high demand, the crocodiles had likely been hunted in the fifth ...

was so moved by the power of Egypt’s mountains — believed to be where Moses received the Ten Commandments — that he went on to traverse some 7,000 miles of this high desert wilderness with ...

In short, the image is indeed an authentic photo depicting a roughly 37-million-year-old fossilized whale skeleton at Wadi Al-Hitan, a site in Egypt's Western Desert whose Arabic name translates ...