The desert highway runs from Cairo to Alexandria down at the coast.   Risking life and limb, peasants harvest the olive trees separating the northbound and southbound lanes.

Outside the city gates we pass the Birqash Camel Market on the very edge of the Western Desert.   For centuries, caravans have travelled the length of Egypt on the Forty Days Road from the troubled region of Darfur, Sudan, to the world's biggest camel souq.

Following the Rosetta branch of the Nile after the mightiest of rivers divides north of Cairo, the highway heads into the salt marshes of the delta.   Resisting the urge to follow alluring signs to the monasteries of Wadi Natrun, the battlefields of El Alamein and the city ruins of Zagazig, we zigzag past modern leisure resorts salvaged from the sands...

...Two hours after leaving Cairo, we arrive at the city gates of Alexandria, the capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC...

[More]   IOL, South Africa, March 12 2005.

In an exclusive interview with the eTurbo News, the secretary-general of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass confirmed the results of the CT scan performed on the mummy of boy King Tutankhamun.

Results from the test indicate the teen pharaoh was not murdered but may have suffered from an infected wound from a broken leg.   A week before his arrival to the United States for a public lecture in Pennsylvania (March 18) on King Tut and the latest finds, he gives the eTN this exclusive scoop...

[More]   TravelVideo.TV, Canada, Mar 11, 2005.