Egypt’s Great Pyramids have been a source of wonder and mystery for centuries. But recent research has shed a dazzling light on the secrets of how they were created, and how this involved the ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

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

Dr. Zahi Hawass, a prominent Egyptologist and former government official has dismissed a study from a group of researchers from the Kahfre Project which claimed there was an underground city beneath ...

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 ...

Too soon to say if they may indicate undiscovered secret chambers, experts say. — -- While the discovery of "thermal anomalies" at Egypt's Giza pyramids by an international group of scientists ...

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 ...

The pyramid was first discovered by a British archaeologist in 1889. Cairo, Egypt -- A roughly 4,000-year-old mud-brick Egyptian pyramid is opening to the public for the first time this week, ...