From ancient monks in Wadi El Natrun to fossilized whales in Wadi al-Hitan, the desert reveals stories of faith, evolution, and human longing. Following the trail of Alexander the Great ...
Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, in the Western Desert of Egypt, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. These fossils represent one of the ...