Older specimens of footed whales have since been identified, but Wadi Hitan’s are unmatched in their numbers and state of preservation. The valley—about a three-hour drive from Cairo—is now ...

Most foreign visitors to Egypt stick to the Nile Valley or the Red Sea coast, but that's to miss the ... and was tempted by the devil. In Wadi El Natrun, we visited the monastery of Deir al ...

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 ...