The mystery of how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built may finally be solved. For decades, experts have struggled to explain how ancient workers lifted and positioned millions of huge stone blocks - some ...

On the Giza plateau outside modern Cairo, a single tomb built for a pharaoh nearly 4,500 years ago held onto a world record longer than almost any structure in history. Long after the civilization ...

The journal Remote Sensing has published a formal retraction of a peer-reviewed piece of research which claimed that satellite radar had uncovered a mysterious series of rooms and tunnels within the ...

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 ...

The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

New research suggests the Great Pyramid of Giza may have had a whole other purpose.

Part one. After the great pyramids : history and hieroglyphs -- The story up to now : a history in pyramids -- Writing changes everything -- Reviving Hardjedef? -- Part two. Making "Ancient Egypt": ...