Dall'Egyptian Gazette, un articolo sulla costa mediterranea del Sinai, ricca di storia e di bellezza naturale:

Rich in natural beauty

The northernmost section of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the coastline of which is bathed by the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, is a territory rich in natural beauty as well as major archaeological remains.

This vast area - because of the relative absence of infrastructure for tourists, but especially because of the almost total lack of information concerning this area in guidebooks and other publications about the Sinai Peninsula - is almost totally ignored by the majority of tourists travelling alone, and almost entirely left out of the programmes of major tour operators.All the same, all those who decide to "explore" North Sinai will be pleasantly astonished at the beauty of the landscapes and the wealth of archaeological finds, artifacts, and monuments dotting an area that, until the decline of the Pharaohs, was of enormous strategic importance, inasmuch as it represented the main route between Egypt and the east (through here ran the so-called Track of Horus, which the Pharaohs would travel, with their armies, when conducting military campaigns in the east). It later witnessed the development of a number of major urban centres, which developed in particular around the Persian era and during Greek and Roman times. Unfortunately, due to the inevitable need to reclaim new areas to make room for the burgeoning population of Egypt, with the resulting construction of new roads, new channels and watercourses, and new urban centres, in accordance with a plan approved by the Egyptian Government in 1990, many of the archaeological areas of the northern Sinai will be destroyed.The Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities is undertaking a plan for the rescue and salvage of the endangered areas through the creation of a great many archaeological digging campaigns, led by Egyptian and non-Egyptian archaeologists. This work is producing a great deal of valuable information, considerably enriching our historical knowledge concerning this area.From the Suez Canal to el-Arish (coastal route) The paved road, that runs parallel with the Mediterranean coast of the Sinai, also connects the Suez Canal with the city of el-Arish, the capital of the North Sinai, and continues as far as Rafah, where the Israeli border is located; the road begins at the city of el-Qantara Sharq (meaning "Eastern el-Qantara"), which can be reached either by taking the road that starts at Tunnel A.H. and then cuts north, running alongside the Suez Canal, or else by taking the ferryboat that crosses the Suez Canal to the north of Ismailia el-Qantara at Gharb (meaning "Western el-Qantara"). After passing through the new urban centre called New Qantara Sharq, still under construction and located near the archaeological site of Tell Abu Seifa, one reaches a checkpoint, and then one continues on to the site of Tell el-Herr, near ,the village of Galbana.This site extends over an area of about thirty hectares (seventy-five acres), and many scholars identify it as the site of the "fortress of Midgol," which is mentioned in the Bible. After travelling sixteen kilometres (ten miles) past the checkpoint, and just prior to entering the little village of Balouza (which takes its name directly from Pelusium, about which more below), one finds, on the left, a paved road, marked by a large sign that points one toward the site of Tell el-Farama, which corresponds to the ancient city of Pelusium, the most important archaeological site in all of North Sinai, where the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities is conducting a vast and far-reaching digging campaign. After travelling few kilometres, or miles, toward the north, one reaches the archaeological area, on either side of the road.Text and photo: courtesy of “Guide to the Exploration of the Sinai” - an AUC press publication.

The ruins of the city of Pelusium stretch over a vast area of easternmost section of the Nile Delta, and today major archaeological excavations are underway there. Pelusium, which surveyed the routes that linked Egypt with the East, was particularly powerful between the seventh century B.C. and the sixth century A.D.