The good assessment is the highest level of praise in the IUCN World Heritage outlook website Wadi El-Hitan, an Egyptian nature reserve, received a positive assessment from the International Union ...

Did you know whales evolved from a land-based animal into an ocean-going mammal? To explore the evidence, we need to look at the desert, which may seem strange when discussing whales. The ocean once ...

Wadi El-Hitan in Egypt is a well-known Unesco World ... is the Director of the Department of Geology and Paleontology, Nature Conservation Sector, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency ...

Once quite difficult to reach, Wadi Hitan has recently become an ecotourism destination. It is part of Wadi El-Rayan, a larger protected area that also includes a Saharan oasis inhabited by Dorcas ...

Gabriel Mikhail Forty million years ago, Wadi El Hitan, a seemingly infinite stretch of sand flats ... A heritage site since 2005, it has attracted tourists in droves. The reserve’s two-kilometre ...

The nature reserve is part of El Fayoum governorate and located about ... El Modawara Mountain (or Jabal El Modawara in Arabic), El Rayan Mountain (Jabal El Rayan) and Wadi El Hitan (The Valley of the ...

Image courtesy of Sanaa El-Sayed Among the invaluable fossil remains of some the earliest sea creatures at the natural reserve of the Whale Valley ... UNESCO World Heritage Site otherwise known as ...

That’s Wadi al-Hitan, also known as Whale Valley ... of bones and the Egyptian government brought it under the Wadi el-Rayan Protected Area to conserve the remains. Over 1500 skeletons of ...