South west of Cairo, deep in Egypt’s Western Desert, there lie treasures even more ancient than the pharaohs’ tombs — and travellers can visit them to see one of the great mysteries of evolution ...
“When scientists first discovered this creature, they thought it was a gigantic marine reptile,” says Hesham Sallam, lead palaeontologist at Wadi al-Hitan. “So they named it Basilosaurus, which means ...