Amenemhat III’s Black Pyramid was meant to be a mighty royal monument, but the project ran into serious structural problems ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza has been studied for centuries, yet new technology is still revealing features that earlier generations could not see. Now researchers say a 4,500-year-old structure on the ...

This discovery is not merely a structural anomaly but a potential gateway to history. Hawass, the former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities, suggests that this passage could lead to the long-lost burial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A study suggests the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to ...

Biondi notes that the first Sphinx sits in a shallow depression, making it plausible that a twin could be hidden beneath this ...

How ancient builders raised the mighty pyramids still captures the curiosity of historians and scientists. Despite decades of digging, high-tech scanning, and countless theories, the puzzle remains: ...

There are few cultural projects that have so perfectly captured both a nation’s ambition and its inertia as the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). Two decades in the making, more than $1bn (€870m) spent and ...

At an estimated budget of $1 billion, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is considered the largest museum in the world dedicated to one civilization. The superlatives don’t end there: It’s also the ...

See how Egyptian engineers might have used water to shape history’s greatest monuments.