Egypt Travel Guide

1. Who Was Ramesses II?

2. Military Campaigns — 15 Fronts and the One He Nearly Lost

The Red Sea is one of the top three diving destinations in the world, alongside the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Triangle. It has been on every serious diver's list for decades, and for good reason: visibility regularly exceeds 30 meters, water temperature rarely drops below 22°C, and the reef systems support over 1,200 species of fish and 250 species of coral — 1...

Marsa Alam exists for people who hear "Red Sea resort" and want the opposite of what that phrase usually implies. No water parks. No nightclub strips. No 40-story hotel blocks lining a promenade. What Marsa Alam offers instead: some of the healthiest coral reefs remaining in the Red Sea, shore diving that starts from the beach, regular dolphin and sea turtle encounter...

The Valley of the Kings contains 63 known tombs cut into the limestone cliffs of the Theban necropolis on Luxor's West Bank. For 500 years — from the 16th to the 11th century BC — every New Kingdom pharaoh was buried here in secret, hidden tombs designed to protect their bodies, their treasures, and their passage into the afterlife.

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Papyrus is the world's oldest paper. Egyptians made it from the pith of the Cyperus papyrus plant over 5,000 years ago — cutting the stalks into strips, layering them crosswise, pressing them under a weight, and drying them into sheets that could survive millennia. The scrolls in the Egyptian Museum, the Wadi al-Jarf papyri documenting the construction of the Great Py...