For visitors keen to get involved, the largest Sofitel hotel in the world has opened in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

My father, whose surname is King and who recently turned 79, often grumbles about growing old. To help put things in perspective, I invited him to join me on a trip to Egypt, where they started ...

At the site of Tombos, archaeologists have found that less-affluent laborers may be buried with upper-class people in pyramid ...

A cruise down the Nile and a few ... to Luxor on the luxury river boat Oberoi Zahra. Before going aboard, though, I wanted very much to spend a night at the Old Cataract hotel in Aswan and had ...

Nile cruises are enduringly popular and Tui saw sufficient demand to launch holidays on the river – a second Nile ship ... this over a gin and tonic on the terrace of the opulent Old Cataract Hotel ...

Located at the Third Cataract of the Nile, Tombos was founded during the Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1400 BCE) as a strategic point to consolidate Egyptian control over Nubia. Unlike previous colonization ...

Being laid to rest in an Egyptian pyramid is traditionally assumed to have been an honour reserved for the wealthy nobility.

At the site of Tombos, archaeologists have found that less-affluent laborers may be buried with upper-class people in pyramid tombs.

His targets, members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, are on the other side of the Blue Nile. So is Sudan’s ... when this photograph was taken, the river was more or less the front ...