Historical overview -- Geography, climate, and people -- A Roman imperial road and the northern part of the Eastern Desert -- Shrines, bathtubs, and stone quarries : how the stone was quarried and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 9,000-year-old shrine in Jordan's eastern desert that was likely used in the practice of religious hunting rituals, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Near the ritual ...

While the Egyptian pharaohs were raising their pyramids above the sands of Giza, another culture was quietly burying its dead in grand monuments just across the desert. For thousands of years, these ...