Articles for tag: ancient egypt, archaeology, Desert discoveries, lost cities

a stone building in the middle of a desert

12 Forgotten Egyptian Cities Buried Beneath the Desert Sands

Suhail Ahmed

  Some of Egypt’s greatest cities no longer rise in stone above the Nile; they lie broken and silent under dunes, salt flats, and tilled fields, erased from maps but not from history. Over the last few decades, archaeologists armed with satellites, magnetometers, and even drone-mounted lasers have begun to trace their outlines again, almost ...