Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza were built to endure an eternity, but how remains one of the ancient world’s greatest mysteries.

One of the biggest unanswered questions in history for the past few thousand years is the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

It was a real pyramid scheme. Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking new theory on how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built, ...

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: ...

A study has shown evidence that Egypt's first pyramid, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, may have been built using hydraulic power, with signs of water facilities.

This is a tool that the Ancient Egyptians used. See the way it's a bit broken? Well, that's because it's very old. We call this kind of object an artefact. An artefact gives us a little window into ...

A groundbreaking study has put forward a radical new explanation for how the Great Pyramid of Giza was really built. The ...

A groundbreaking study suggests the ancient Egyptians may have used hydraulic power before we could have imagined this skill. They did not utilize just ramps and manpower, to build the Step Pyramid of ...

Tabloids have seized on the most headline-friendly takeaway - “pulleys built the pyramid” - but the underlying claim is more specific: the pyramid may have grown “inside-out,” using internal sloped ...

For 50 years, Rajan Hooda, MBA ’88, PhD ’90, has been obsessed with a mystery that has baffled archaeologists, architects, and engineers for centuries: How did the ancient Egyptians build the Great ...

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...

Two years ago, a team of research scientists announced they would use muon tomography to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu. They planned to image internal ...