The 3,500-year-old retreat also marks the beginning of the ancient route known as the "Horus Road," which ran from Egypt ...

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A team of researchers is creating the first digitized archive of manuscripts from St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. The aim is to preserve the heritage housed in ...

The mountain we had climbed is the conventional location for Mount Sinai deep in the south-central part of Egypt’s Sinai ...

Militant Islamists have been waging an insurgency on the Sinai peninsula in recent years, stepping up attacks after Egypt's military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi after mass anti ...

His sights are set on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, an arid, triangle-shaped expanse that connects Africa with Asia. Thousands of years ago it was bursting with life, he said, but years of farming ...

In February 2018, three months after gunmen killed more than 300 worshippers at a Sinai mosque, the military launched a major campaign "to clear Egypt's ... militants in the peninsula were also ...

It was Egypt's deadliest bombing in recent years. In Egypt's northeastern Sinai Peninsula in October, attackers struck the Taba Hilton and nearby camping areas around Ras al Sultan and Tarabeen in ...

The Islamic State's (IS) group's branch in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula posted a video on Tuesday depicting the beheading of two men the militant group said it had found guilty of practising witchcraft ...