Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure built their massive tombs to last. For more than 4,000 years, the Pyramids of Giza ...

A landmark discovery on an ancient branch of the River Nile may have solved the mystery of how the pyramids in Egypt were built centuries ago. The now dried-out waterway, which once ran through Giza ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s antiquities authorities on Thursday unveiled a newly discovered, sealed-off chamber inside one of the Great Pyramids at Giza, just outside of Cairo, that dates back some 4,500 ...

The latest breakthrough in pyramid research did not begin in the desert but in orbit, where radar images from space have traced a lost branch of the Nile that once flowed beside Egypt’s most famous ...

The buried structure may be an entrance to something deeper beneath the desert floor.

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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 ...

An Egyptian archaeologist overseeing a project to scan a pyramid for voids on Saturday criticised the announcement of a discovery of a passenger plane-sized cavity in the Great Pyramid. Scientists ...

In 2017, an international group of physicists discovered something new inside the Great Pyramid of Giza without lifting a single stone. By using cosmic muon rays, very small particles that go through ...

Egyptian archaeologists work at an ancient burial ground in Saqqara, dating back to 2,700 B.C., where a 4,300-year-old pyramid has been discovered at the Saqqara necropolis. It was first built for ...