The Great Pyramid of Giza was built from roughly 2.3 million stone blocks, some weighing as much as 50 metric tons, yet researchers still debate exactly how ancient Egyptians moved them into place.

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

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...

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 ...

Are you lumping all of 'Ancient Egypt' together?'Cleopatra' and 'the Pyramids'.When you hear these two words, don't you put them both into the same 'Ancient Egypt' box?Deserts. Pharaohs. Pyramids.

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

A secret doorway inside an ancient Egyptian pyramid is believed to have been discovered by a scientist, over 4,500 years on ...

A new theory suggests that the Great Pyramid of Giza may contain a hidden numerical code in its 4,500-year-old measurements, ...

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 ...

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The remains of an ancient Egyptian pyramid were found near King Sneferu’s Bent Pyramid, above, in the Dahshur royal necropolis. DeAgostini/Getty Images Excavators have found what they say is another ...