For thousands of years people have wondered how the pyramids of Egypt were truly built. The Great Pyramid of Giza alone contains around 2.3 million limestone blocks, some weighing over 15 tons, yet ...

The Great Pyramid has not yielded its secrets by force, but by physics. In the last decade, researchers studying Khufu’s monument have shown that a previously hidden corridor behind the north face ...

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.

A man has claimed the Egyptians did not build the Great Pyramid of Giza, and instead thinks a secret 'supercivilisation' did ...

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up to 4,800 years ago – right when the first pyramids were being built. The ...

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 ...

See also related article by Jean-François Augereau, "Will the Great Pyramid yield up its secrets?" Manchester guardian weekly (September 14, 1986, page 12 (VF-- Art, Egypt).