An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered a roughly 1,700-year-old pyramid-shaped tomb at Bir al-Shughala in the ...

The Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx might be Egypt's superstars, but look beyond them and you'll find intriguing myths, a warm modern-day culture, and a very human side to ancient history—and ...

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

A new study aims to answer the centuries-old question of how the Great Pyramids were built thousands of years ago, and its findings have provided an unexpected possible answer: water. Though deserts ...

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 ...

Why didn't the massive pyramids collapse even when major earthquakes occurred?Because they are piles of stones stacked in the ...

Excavations in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt have uncovered a mudbrick pyramid tomb from Roman times, which contains a Greek ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pyramids in and around Giza have presented a fascinating puzzle for millennia. How did ancient Egyptians move limestone blocks ...

A buried Nile channel found near Giza may explain how ancient Egyptians hauled stone to build the Great Pyramid.

Photographs of the rarely visited peak of one of Egypt's ancient pyramids have uncovered a surprising piece of graffiti - ...

Egyptologist Professor Laurel Bestock rejoins WIRED to break down five discoveries that tell us exactly how the Egyptian pyramids were built; from the Giza quarry to The Diary of Merer, Laurel paints ...

It is one of the most photographed tourist destinations in the world as people look for a permanent reminder of their visit.