Al-Ahram Weekly

The great desert park
Long a destination for its dry climate and the natural cures of sand and sea, Egypt's Red Sea coast has caught the eye of a Scandinavian company ready to make the most of so favourable a reputation, writes Ahmed Sami

The journey is its own reward
Egypt hasn't always opened its arms to the so-called adventure traveller. Cassandra Vivian describes the determination that took one woman and her illustrious companion across the Western Desert

The man behind the deal?
Inside the Saqqara tomb of a 19th-century official could lie clues to a treaty that changed the course of Pharaonic history. Nevine El-Aref reports on an interesting find

From an archaeologist's notebook
Egyptologist Zahi Hawass recalls his induction into the far reaches of Egypt's Antiquities Department in this page from an occasional series

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