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 ...

It presides over the plateau of Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, and is the last survivor of the Seven Wonders of the World. Five thousand years ago Giza, situated on the Nile's west bank ...

Its completion utterly transformed the plateau. Khufu had selected ... all three tombs will be looted. Stairway to HeavenThe step pyramid in Saqqara, south of Giza, was Egypt’s first.

Additionally, salt encrustations found inside the Great Pyramid support the idea that ocean water flooded the Giza Plateau. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s former Minister of Antiquities, dismissed ...