The pyramids at Giza are usually described as the ultimate building project, millions of blocks stacked skyward by sheer human effort. A growing fringe of researchers and online theorists is now ...

Venture to the windswept sands of Saqqara, home to the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the world's first monumental stone structure ...

It was a real pyramid scheme. Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking new theory on how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built, positing that they used a pulley and counterweight system to erect it so ...

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 pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have been just for the rich, according to burials found at the archaeological site of Tombos in Sudan. "Our findings suggest that pyramid tombs, once ...

The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves between the ancient and the modern. The ancient story chronicles, step-by-step, how a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age could construct ...

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 ...