More than 4,500 years after it was built, the Great Pyramid of Giza is still surprising scientists. In a discovery announced ...

Long before the Great Pyramid of Giza, ancient Egyptians built something extraordinary—Egypt’s first colossal stone structure ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza—the largest of Egypt’s pyramids—consists of about 2.3 million limestone blocks. The smallest of these weigh two tons, while the largest weigh over 60. History says laborers ...

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 ...

How exactly was the Great Pyramid built? Inside-out, thinks architect Jean-Pierre Houdin. Courtesy of Virtools In 1999, Henri Houdin, a retired French civil engineer, was watching a television ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...

Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...