Thousands of years before dams on the Nile kept the crocodiles at bay, the Fayoum Oasis was the center of worship of the ancient Egyptian crocodile god, Sobek. On a map of Egypt, the 2,300-square ...

Basem Gehad has been directing excavations at the Ancient Philadelphia Necropolis in the Egyptian Fayoum since 2016. His team has cleaned tombs that were looted in the late 19 th and early 20 th ...

FAYOUM - Helmy Mahmoud, a 72-year-old farmer, tenderly nurtures his medicinal herbs in Fayoum Governorate, Egypt's burgeoning hub for botanical agriculture. At Mahmoud's 50-acre field, the scent ...