About egypt

oasis

THE OASES-PEARLS OF THE DESERT...

"Just like little stars in a golden universe..."

The very word "Oasis" conjures a string of images - swirling sands, blue veiled Tuaregs, mirages, the thirsty caravan stumbling into a pool of sweet water set amid swaying palms.

From the Nile, the Sahara stretches 5,000 km westward to the Atlantic. The world's greatest expanse of desert is broken only by dots of green, where human habitation has survived the spread of sands.

Contrary to popular imagination, which sees verdure sprouting incongruously from dunes, oases generally lie in rocky lands where wind and time have scratched out vast depressions whose depths allow natural underground aquifers to reach the surface.

Since at least 5000 BC man has been exploiting nature's gifts in this curve of which retains its distinct culture and language...