A series of reconstructions and videos showing how the ancient Egyptians used precise calculations and hard manual labour to ...

Ancient Egypt. Pyramids. A video for KS2 pupils exploring pyramids in Ancient Egypt - their construction, purpose and the ...

Egyptian authorities have signaled that a forthcoming announcement tied to the Great Pyramid of Giza will force a rethinking ...

India, June 20 -- For thousands of years, pyramids have captivated travellers, archaeologists and historians alike. While ...

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

The Great Pyramid of Khufu was completed between approximately 4,600 and 4,450 years ago. Since then, the 450-foot-tall ...

For much of human history, stories about the construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramids were rooted in rumor rather than research. The Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, who famously counted the ...

A new study measuring vibration frequencies throughout the Great Pyramid revealed how it has been able to withstand severe seismic shocks.

An Egyptian archaeological mission has unearthed a pair of 5,000-year-old tombs in Minya Governorate that are shedding new light on the evolution of ancient Egyptian funerary architecture. The ...

From the glass atrium of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the three great Pyramids of Giza are perfectly framed on the desert horizon. The architects designed it this way; a deliberate alignment connecting ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...