In school, we're taught that the Egyptian pyramids were built as tombs for pharaohs around 4,500 years ago. These giant ...

For people with inflexible schedules or limited time off from work, flying for a day trip can be an attainable way to experience a place without committing to a longer vacation. However, your carbon ...

Travelers gripe about suffocating crowds, gross bathrooms, amateur art and bad food at world-class destinations.

Egypt is pursuing an ambitious project: it is set to build a new city with 2.5 to 3 million new homes southwest of the capital Cairo, right next to the Pyramids of Giza. The urban development project ...

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Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...

For much of human history, stories about the construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramids were rooted in rumor rather than research. The Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, who famously ...