The Great Pyramid still has a way of turning a familiar façade into an engineering question. Above Khufu’s main northern ...

How did the ancient world’s most famous monument become, at ground level, a triumph of scheduling, transport, storage, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scans of the third-largest pyramid at Giza, the Menkaure pyramid, have revealed two anomalous pockets of nothing but air hiding ...

Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking new theory on how Egypt's Great Pyramid was built, positing that they had to use a pulley and counterweight weight system to erect it so quickly. It was a ...

Tourist photos are by now a centuries-old cliché, particularly in the case of those landmarks that have been photographed millions of times over. But a group of Russian photographers just found a way ...

Part one. After the great pyramids : history and hieroglyphs -- The story up to now : a history in pyramids -- Writing changes everything -- Reviving Hardjedef? -- Part two. Making "Ancient Egypt": ...

Researchers from Cairo and Munich uncovered “air-filled voids” beneath Menkaure pyramid’s eastern face, suggesting a long-suspected hidden entrance. Using electrical resistivity tomography, radar, and ...

Two years ago, a team of research scientists announced they would use muon tomography to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu. They planned to image internal ...