The mathematics encoded in the Great Pyramid pointed to a level of precision that shouldn’t have existed in the ancient world. Its original height and base, measured in royal cubits, produced the ...

Italian engineer says four satellites show identical structures buried over 3,500ft deep - but mainstream Egyptologists ...

Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza were built to endure an eternity, but how remains one of the ancient world’s greatest mysteries. Here’s what archaeologists know. The Pyramids of Giza rise behind Egypt’s ...

New scans of the Pyramid of Menkaure at Giza have revealed two hidden chambers tucked behind its eastern face, air-filled ...

Last March, a group of Italian scientists made headlines when they revealed the discovery of an extensive underground complex ...

Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile river that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the ...

The pyramids in and around Giza have presented a fascinating puzzle for millennia. How did ancient Egyptians move limestone blocks, some weighing more than a ton, without using wheels? Why were these ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...

Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...

A proposal to renovate one of the three iconic pyramids in Giza is getting some pushback from critics, one of whom likened such a venture to "straightening the Tower of Pisa." The project concerns the ...