An artefact gives us a little window into another timeand this one helps us travel back nearly 5000 years to the Old Kingdom in Ancient Egypt. The Ancient Egyptians built pyramids as giant burial ...

In ancient Egypt it was the job of scribes to plan how many blocks of stone needed to be quarried and transported to the site, and make sure that the sides of the pyramids were an even gradient.

When someone thinks of pyramids, Egypt springs to mind straight away. And that’s unsurprising considering how big of a tourist attraction it’s become. But few people know there is a country ...

At the same time, the imaginary line that roughly joins the southeast corners of the three pyramids points toward the temple of Re in Heliopolis. circa 2550 B.C. Khufu, second king of Egypt’s ...

The Pyramids of Giza and the sands of Ancient Egypt hold the secrets of the ages. By excavating near the Pyramids, those secrets are slowly being revealed, and by restoring the Pyramids ...

There have been claims that a great civilization predates ancient dynastic Egypt—one that existed some 10,500 years B.C.—and that this civilization was responsible for building the pyramids ...

It is inspired by the pyramids of Egypt, which Rome had attacked just eight years previously. Inside is the burial chamber, a simple barrel-vaulted rectangular cavity decorated with frescoes.

Cairo's most popular attraction, the Pyramids of Giza ... bus tours operated by companies like Memphis Tours and Emo Tours Egypt cost between $80 and $125 and include stops at other attractions ...

NOVA: Some of the theories of who built the pyramids suggest that the builders may not have been from Egypt. Can you respond to that? LEHNER: One thing that strikes me when I read about these ...

When you think of pyramids, your mind probably jumps to Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza. But did you know that the world’s largest collection of pyramids isn’t found in Egypt at all?