This clip is from the BBC Primary History series, Pyramid - The Great Pyramid of Khufu. Pupils could build pyramid shapes from interlocking plastic cubes. If the tip of their pyramid is a square ...

Because they were the friends of Khufu proves that building the pyramid was not really something that the Egyptians would push. You know, it's like today. If you go to any village you will ...

Some citizens and archaeologists are concerned about what they see as widespread "mismanagement" of Egypt's rich cultural ...

About 2,550 B.C., King Khufu, the second pharaoh of the fourth dynasty, commissioned the building of his tomb at Giza. Some Egyptologists believe it took 10 years just to build the ramp that leads ...

Zahi Hawass describes some of the private tombs of the Old Kingdom, built in the expectation of continuing needs in the afterlife ...

Scribes set about calculating the number of blocks that would be required to build a pyramid with the selected gradient—in the case of Khufu, the angle of the sides with the ground is 52 degrees ...

Egypt's Antiquities Ministry says a scanning project in the Giza pyramids has identified thermal anomalies, including one in the largest pyramid, built by Cheops, known locally as Khufu.

How were the ancient Egyptians able to build such gigantic monuments ... system dates back at least to the reign of Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza”, judges the French Egyptologist.