New secret chambers have been uncovered inside a 4,400-year-old ancient Egyptian pyramid. When many of us think of Egypt, the iconic landscape of the ancient pyramids is one of the first things that ...

On the northeastern edge of the Giza Plateau, I discovered three perfectly cut shafts hidden beneath the sands. They sit in the triangle between the Great Sphinx, Khufu's Pyramid and Khafre's Pyramid, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 speed of light, and the latitude of the ancient Egyptian Great Pyramid of Giza, are the same figure, but what does this actually mean?

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 ...

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 ...

Two hidden voids have been discovered within one of the pyramids of Giza, in Egypt—potentially shining light on an enduring mystery about the existence of a lost entrance to the giant tomb. The ...