The inhospitable location has long puzzled archaeologists, some of whom had found evidence that the Nile River once flowed near these pyramids in some capacity, facilitating the landmarks ...

Thirty-one pyramids in Egypt – including the Giza pyramid complex – may originally have been built along a now buried branch of the River Nile – providing a route for construction materials ...

The Pyramids were not laid out willy-nilly on the Giza Plateau. Each side of each of the three Pyramids lines up precisely east-west or north-south. It's a bit of a mystery how the ancients ...

both of which in olden days would have stood on the edge of the Nile. (A change in the river's course has left it farther east today.) Visitors take a ride below the Khafre Pyramid. You start ...

These are wooden sailing vessels like the one fictional detective Hercule Poirot sailed on Death On The Nile. This is a ...

The Pyramids of Giza rise from the west bank of the Nile River almost as an act of defiance, perfectly symmetrical behemoths imposed upon a flat, barren landscape. The Great Pyramid—the oldest ...

It helped people to easily access the water from the River Nile. They built a system of canals to bring the water to the crops a process that's called irrigation. So it's no accident that one of ...

near the River Nile, the nearby religious site of Naqa and Musawwarat es Sufra. It was the seat of the rulers who occupied Egypt for close to a century and features, among other vestiges, pyramids, ...

Discover Ancient Egypt with these songs for 7 - 11 year olds and other video content - including the pyramids, gods and goddesses, mummification, the River Nile, hieroglyphs, farming and irrigation.