Ria Xi had been running for about six days when disaster struck. The 26-year-old was halfway through her incredible mission, each step under the desert sun bringing her closer to becoming the first ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its entrance more than 2,000 years ago, new excavations reveal. Archaeologists made ...

Egyptologists have discovered the remains of a "rest house" in the northern Sinai desert. The structure may have temporarily housed ancient Egyptian forces, and possibly even royalty, during the reign ...

van der Hoeven describes how the Sinai desert once contained a lush lagoon - protected by mountains - which supplied the surrounding area with water, but that thousands of years of erosion and ...

Members of the Bakar family, who were displaced from Shifa in the Gaza Strip, are now sheltering in Al-Mawasi near Rafah and fear they may be forced to move across ...

People assume that silence and peace can be simply harnessed together, silence as Xanax for the soul. But that's not how deserts work. All deserts are silent, harsh and beautiful. Sinai adds its ...

More than 3,000 years ago, the Israelites escaped bondage in Egypt and made themselves into a nation in the Sinai Desert. This Passover, a group of their descendants will camp in California's Mojave ...