The architect of the Great Pyramid of Giza is generally believed to have been a man named Hemiunu. What do we really know ...

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 ...

It is believed that Giza housed a skeleton crew of workers ... which is what you would have to deliver to the Khufu Pyramid to build it in 20 years. And it comes out somewhere between—I've ...

Giza's three pyramids and the Sphinx were ... On average, the over two million blocks of stone used to build Khufu's pyramid weigh 2.5 tons, and the heaviest blocks, used as the ceiling of ...

Khafre, Khufu's son, lies entombed in the nearby Pyramid of Khafre. The third structure, the Pyramid of Menkaure, stands as the smallest of the Pyramids of Giza and was constructed by Khafre's ...

Here we delve inside Egypt's pyramids to reveal their many treasures and secrets, while also shining a light on Egypt's ...

Indeed, deep within the Great Pyramid of Giza, there exists a massive ... with some suggesting it was a secret burial chamber for the pharaoh Khufu, who ordered the pyramid to be built.

The Pyramids of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, stand as Egypt's most iconic landmarks and a testament ...

Uncanny alignments, massive blocks, and debates about ancient engineering fuel theories of external forces constructing the ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest and oldest in Egypt, was built for the Pharoah Khufu around 2560 BC. Researchers spent two years studying the pyramid using muons - high-speed particles ...

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