He also wanted to embrace the wider site’s vistas of tall organ-pipe cacti, thick elephant ... because of the desert climate of Baja California. For inspiration, I looked to the Dendera sacred lake in ...

Just as finding the Rosetta stone in Egypt enabled linguists to decipher ancient ... When one of the pilgrims found a peyote cactus peeking above­ground in the desert, he pulled his bowstring taut and ...

Most visitors never experience the natural masterpieces that lie off the tourist trail—from bubbling hot springs to unearthly ...

Egypt wants the development to help increase the value of state assets and boost land prices through "non-traditional, ...

Few travelers venture into that 90 percent. The vast Western Desert, which blends into Libya and beyond, is Egypt’s great unknown. Adventurers since Alexander the Great have braved the harsh ...

CAIRO, June 1 (Reuters) - Egypt unveiled plans on Sunday to build a desert city that will see about 7% of Egypt's annual Nile River quota rerouted from fertile delta land to pass by upscale glass ...

Egypt is rewriting the rules of survival in one of the planet’s harshest environments with its groundbreaking New Delta ...

Just as many wildflowers are beginning to fade, cactus blooms are showing up a bit early to keep deserts around Tucson colorful. Among the early bloomers are red and yellow cholla cactus flowers ...

“However, the saguaros of Arizona and Sonora and the giant cacti of Mexico will still be here, and the beauty of the desert will reveal itself in new ways,” said Wilder, director of the ...