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CAIRO (Reuters) - It looks like a mirage but the lush fields of cauliflower, apricot trees and melon growing among a vast stretch of sand north of Cairo's pyramids is all too real -- proof of Egypt's ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what appears to be far more than a forgotten industrial site in Egypt’s eastern desert. Deep in the rugged Sukari Mountains, a 3,000-year-old Egyptian gold mine has come ...

AL ZAAFARANA, Egypt (Reuters) - A speck of green in a sea of sand, St. Anthony's Monastery in Egypt welcomes those seeking God in silence broken only by the whisper of the wind. Sign up here. Monks at ...