On the Giza plateau outside modern Cairo, a single tomb built for a pharaoh nearly 4,500 years ago held onto a world record ...

The site attributed to Pharaoh Djedefre features a massive descending trench cut 49 metres into bedrock, lined with fine Tura ...

The rubbly exterior of Sahura's pyramid juxtaposed with the recently cleared and restored chambers (all images courtesy Mohamed Ismail Khaled) A team of Egyptian and German researchers led by Mohamed ...

Perhaps it could lead to a real-life Chamber of Secrets. A 30-foot-long hidden corridor was discovered by scientists Thursday near the main entrance of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza in ...

Learn more about the Pyramids of Giza, who they were built for, and the possible methods used to complete them. The pyramids of Giza are among the oldest monumental stone buildings ever created, and ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza, a 66-foot-tall statue resting in the shadow of the nearby Great Pyramid of Giza, is one of the most widely recognizable relics of the ancient world. Even if you’ve never seen ...

Are you lumping all of 'Ancient Egypt' together?'Cleopatra' and 'the Pyramids'.When you hear these two words, don't you put them both into the same 'Ancient Egypt' box?Deserts. Pharaohs. Pyramids.

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Egypt has opened its 4,600-year-old "bent" pyramid to visitors, who can travel deep inside its tunnels to visit the ...

Its purpose was set in stone. Aliens might not have built the Egyptian pyramids, but that apparently doesn’t mean they didn’t serve a higher purpose. Independent researcher Sefy Levy argued that the ...

“On the reading proposed here, the Great Pyramid was built to permanently encode the Zep Tepi cosmological system in the most ...