The Ancient Egyptians built pyramids as giant burial tombs for the most important people in their society, the pharaohs. Inside each of these pyramids is a mummy. Mummification was the way in ...

How the Egyptian pyramids were built over 4,000 years ago has been one of the great mysteries of the ancient world. Despite their age, more than 100 of them remain standing today, showcasing ...

There have been claims that a great civilization predates ancient dynastic Egypt—one that existed some 10,500 years B.C.—and that this civilization was responsible for building the pyramids ...

Before looking closely at pharaonic society and the beginning of the Pyramid Age, one first has to step into Egypt's landscape and take a look around. Ancient Egyptians called their land "Kemet ...

It never ceased to amaze me that every day I looked at the pyramid, I saw a different image. Although the ancient Egyptians produced over 107 pyramids for their kings and queens, it is the Great ...

Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt ... the Pyramids at Giza in person today. They are so iconic, so astonishingly ancient, that ...

Engineers might have cracked the code for how the ancient Egyptians built their first pyramids. A new study suggests that water power, not just brute force, helped construct the iconic Step ...