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

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up to 4,800 years ago – right when the first pyramids were being built. The ...

Recent scans of the Pyramid of Menkaure on the Giza Plateau have revealed something remarkable: two previously unknown cavities. Researchers with the ScanPyramids project used non-destructive methods ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Pyramid of Menkaure, one of the three famous ...

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 ...

This file Aug. 19, 2011 photo shows tourists as they leave the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur, about 25 miles south of Cairo, Egypt. An international heritage research group says scientists will begin ...

The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves between the ancient and the modern. The ancient story chronicles, step-by-step, how a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age could construct ...

The location of the entrance to Egypt's 'floating' pyramid stumped archaeologists for years, but the nearby village is the ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the last remaining wonder of the ancient world. — -- Egypt's antiquities ministry says researchers should not have rushed to publicly announce this week the ...