Nearly 4,700 years ago, ancient Egyptian builders created something the world had never seen: a monumental stone pyramid ...

Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure built their massive tombs to last. For more than 4,000 years, the Pyramids of Giza ...

Discover the mysterious Osiris Shaft beneath Egypt's Great Pyramid, a secret that baffled historians for centuries. Recently explored by Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, this submerged chamber offers a ...

Using 3-D models, one archaeologist is recording the structures’ exact measurements.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent scans of the Pyramid of Menkaure on the Giza Plateau have revealed something remarkable: two previously unknown cavities.

Two 5,000-year-old tombs recently unearthed at Jabal al-Tayr, Egypt, resemble the royal tomb of King Hor-Den at Abydos. The tombs’ construction suggests their builders understood structural ...

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 ...

Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza has resisted earthquake damage for nearly 5,000 years, and scientists finally know why. The pyramid tends to vibrate at a different frequency compared with the ...

I have had some very bad days at work, but none have been as awful as one tour guide who was arrested this week after a video of him defacing an Egyptian pyramid went viral. That's because this man ...

THE EGYPTIANS might have built the pyramids using kites. It seems like a ridiculous idea, but an aeronautics professor at the California Institute of Technology has proved that it could nonetheless be ...