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?

Egypt wants the development to help increase the value of state assets and boost land prices through "non-traditional, ...

A spotted hyena has been reported in Egypt for the first time in thousands ... The wandering hyena was found last year deep in the Sahara desert, hundreds of miles north of the species' normal ...

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 ...

Anthony of the Desert was born in Egypt on Jan. 12 ... He is also known as the “co-patron” of animals, sharing the title with St. Francis of Assisi. For a long time at the Vatican, a blessing ...

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 ...

For the renovation, Egypt's ministry of agriculture is ... overlook poorer Egyptians and the huge variety of animals - from big cats to desert rats - in desperate need of better care.

Egyptian desert patrols warned them that the route was unsafe because of old land mines still planted there, but since they had a four-day supply of food and water, they decided to cut across the ...

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 ...