The location of the entrance to Egypt's 'floating' pyramid stumped archaeologists for years, but the nearby village is the ...

The Pyramids of Egypt are one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and the only one that still survives. They are one ...

Family TiesThe pharaoh’s relatives, such as Nefertiabet, Khufu’s daughter—depicted on this relief found in her tomb in Giza—were buried beside the sovereign’s pyramid. Photograph by Wern ...

Standing at the base of the pyramids at Giza it is hard to believe that any of these enormous monuments could have been built in one pharaoh's lifetime. Herodotus, the Greek historian who wrote in ...

Astronomy can often give us clues to the past that are otherwise lost to history. In one case, an Italian astronomer has ...

Engineers might have cracked the code for how the ancient Egyptians built their first pyramids. A new study suggests that ...

“This work opens a new line of research: the use of hydraulic force to erect the massive structures built by Pharaohs.” The ...

The artifact was interred in honor of Khufu, the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid, by his son and successor Djedefre. For four and a half millennia, it lay undisturbed in its limestone sarcophagus.

Archaeologists working at the site of Saqqara have discovered a 4,100-year-old tomb that held the burial of a doctor.

Shanghai Museum decided to host an Egyptian-themed New Year's Party which took place from 7 pm to midnight, and included a ...

Entombed in a pyramid, Piye was the first pharaoh in more than 500 years to be buried this way. The 25th dynasty would last for three-quarters of a century. Its reign ended in turmoil when an ...

They were unearthed at the causeway of Pharaoh Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir al-Bahri on the Nile's West Bank.