French and Egyptian researchers have presented the first solid evidence that two huge linear structures located southwest of ...

Egypt's Antiquities Ministry says a scanning project in the Giza pyramids has identified thermal anomalies, including one in ...

Nadine Arab Cairo's most popular attraction, the Pyramids of Giza, draws thousands of visitors every year. As one of the ...

This video explores the Great Pyramid of Giza, Giza Governorate, Egypt, the largest and oldest pyramid ever built in ancient ...

A spectacular new institution and a project to sequence the genomes of mummies are fuelling debate over the future of ...

A rare eruption in the Indian Ocean let researchers capture one of the clearest views yet of a seafloor spreading event ...

A label on John Perring's 1837 map of Giza marks "inclined passages" beneath what became King Farouk's 1946 Royal Rest House, but detailed analysis reveals this was likely a mislabeled Fourth Dynasty ...

In the world of archeology, few tools have revolutionized the field as much as ground-penetrating radar (GPR). This geophysical technique uses radar pulses to image the subsurface. Similar techniques ...

Over the past 4,600 years, the Great Pyramid of Giza has weathered a dozen or so major earthquakes. Most recently, the 5.9 magnitude Cairo earthquake of 1992 dislodged some casing stones from the ...

History, science, art and everything in between can be found within the walls of thousands of museums around the world, so how do you narrow down the best? It’s no easy feat. The greatest museums are ...

Roig’s model found that using a single ramp would have been insufficient and would have required nearly half a century of construction to reach the pyramid’s completion. The Great Pyramid of Giza may ...

The Giza Sphinx faces east, while the pyramids’ sides are aligned precisely in the cardinal directions. There is little doubt that the Sun or stars must have been used to align the Giza pyramids, but ...