A lost Nile branch, the Ahramat River, may explain how Egypt's pyramids were built, serving as a vital transport route for ...

Memphis Pyramid, a towering structure inspired by ancient Egypt, now a bustling attraction with a mysterious past.

They say that every dog has its day, and for Apollo, a young stray who roams the Giza necropolis in Greater Cairo, that day ...

The Great Pyramids of Giza are eight-sided rather than four-sided, according to a study published in the journal ...

For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across ...

Indonesian archaeologist Danny Hilman Natawidjaja made quite the claim, linking a hill in West Java, Indonesia, as the oldest ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... until “the Great Pyramid, in all its unexpected bulk and majesty, towers close above one ...

This is where the jokingly called [History for Granite] channel on YouTube has now pitched some new ideas, involving the casing stones that used to fully cover the Pyramid of Khafre, prior to ...

Entombed in a pyramid, Piye was the first pharaoh in more ... destroying their statues and stelae to erase their names from history. A small chapel tomb (ca 13th century B.C.) at the necropolis ...

Standing at the base of the Great Pyramid, it is hard to imagine that this monument—which remained the tallest building in the world until early in this century—was built in just under 30 years.

This clip is from the BBC Primary History series, Pyramid - The Great Pyramid of Khufu. Before watching this clip, pupils could come up with explanations for how the Egyptians built the pyramids ...