The Great Pyramid of Cheops originally stood at 147 metres tall, but today, due to erosion, it measures around 139 metres. The unusual event occurred on October 14th of this year, when Alex Lang ...

The Great Pyramid "was built on the Giza Plateau (Egypt) during the IVth dynasty by the pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), who reigned from 2509 to 2483 BC1," the study says. "Despite being one of the oldest ...

Ancient landmarks that have endured the passage of time and silently observed human history are scattered across the globe.

Along with the enigmatic Sphinx and other smaller tombs and monuments, Giza has three principal pyramids: Khufu (originally 481 feet high, and sometimes called Cheops, or the Great Pyramid ...

The project used Synthetic Aperture Radar tomography and involved scientists Corrado Malanga of the University of Pisa and Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, who scanned the ...

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.

You can build a model of the Great Pyramid, but first you need to scale it down. To do this, you will need to make the pyramid 3,000 times smaller than it really is! To achieve that, every 30 ...

At 146.5 m (481 ft) high, the Great Pyramid stood as the tallest structure in the world for more than 4,000 years. Today it stands at 137 m (449.5 ft) high, having lost 9.5 m (31 ft) from the top.

Bradley Walsh has shared his astonishment over a "mindblowing" visit to Egypt's Great Pyramid while filming for Sky History's 'Bradley Walsh: Egypt's Cosmic Code'. The popular presenter of The ...