This detailed astronaut photograph illustrates a portion of the Nile Delta that includes two royal cemeteries, Abusir and Saqqara-North.
Published Dec 1, 2008
The tombs of the old pharaohs are a favorite subject of photography by astronauts in orbit.
Published Sep 24, 2012
Modern Luxor is full of relics and reminders of ancient Egypt.
Published Jun 3, 2019
In the Western Desert of Egypt, date and olive groves stand out alongside an ancient settlement.
Published Jun 20, 2016
In fall 2014, the MODIS sensor detected several small fires in the Nile River Delta.
Published Oct 20, 2014
Greenery sprouts from the Sahara Desert in Egypt thanks to the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System.
Published Sep 18, 2017
The fast-growing city of Cairo has spilled onto desert plains well beyond the lush floodplain of the Nile River.
Published Apr 2, 2020
This part of the eastern Sahara is very dry, but greenery has been cropping up in recent decades.
Published Mar 11, 2017
City lights define the Nile River Valley as it snakes across the Egyptian desert. The cities of Naj’ Hamadi, Qena, and Luxor, shine the brightest. Communities in the hillsides create a thin border along either side of the valley. Simliar strips line the Nile itself. Most of Egypt’s population, and most of the country’s arable land, occupies the Nile River Valley.
Published Jun 25, 2003
Pioneering agricultural projects were planned to encourage people to leave the very heavily populated Nile Delta and to seek economic opportunities in the desert.
Published Dec 16, 2018
Even in China’s largest, driest, and hottest desert, vegetation sprouts in the spring.
Published May 5, 2020
Airborne dust draws the eye to the place where Africa and Arabia once fit together.
Published Jul 8, 2013
For millennia, the river has been the most important water supply in the western Sahara Desert.
Published Oct 27, 2014
Home to one-fifth of Egypt’s population, it is the largest city in the Middle East and Africa’s second largest.
Published Apr 6, 2015
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took this photograph when the desert center of Arabia was partly obscured by a dusty atmosphere.
Published Dec 8, 2014
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