Few discoveries stop Egyptologists in their tracks, but this one did. During a routine excavation near Djoser’s Step Pyramid, the oldest of Egypt's pyramids, archaeologists brushed aside centuries of ...

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 ...

It’s not every day that archaeologists stumble upon a 4,000-year-old pyramid, let alone one that’s been sealed since antiquity. But in the heart of Egypt’s ancient royal necropolis of Dahshur, that’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...