The construction of the Great Pyramid in Egypt has long remained a mystery to archaeologists, because ancient texts did not ...

The Great Pyramid has always invited audacious explanations, from alien architects to supernatural levitation. Now a cluster ...

A study has shown evidence that Egypt's first pyramid, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, may have been built using hydraulic power, with signs of water facilities.

The Great Pyramid of Giza stood nearly 150 meters tall and was built from more than two million stone blocks. Some weighed up to 50 tons and were placed with near-perfect precision. Despite centuries ...

Great Pyramid construction workers may have used a hidden internal pulley system rather than external ramps to move the ...

It was a real pyramid scheme. Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking new theory on how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built, ...

Tabloids have seized on the most headline-friendly takeaway - “pulleys built the pyramid” - but the underlying claim is more specific: the pyramid may have grown “inside-out,” using internal sloped ...

A plan to cover a Giza pyramid with granite cladding has been called “absurd” after its proponents promised it would deliver “a gift from Egypt to the world”. The project aims to restore the Pyramid ...

A project to restore granite blocks that once covered a greater portion of the Pyramid of Menkaure in Giza has been criticized by some preservationists. By Julia Halperin When the Egyptian authorities ...

The Menkaure Pyramid Review Committee (MPRC) has unanimously rejected a plan to restore the granite casing blocks scattered around the base of the smallest of three Pyramids of Giza for thousands of ...

An Egyptian renovation that will see a pyramid clad in granite blocks has been likened to 'straightening the Tower of Pisa' by experts. Work at Egypt's Menkaure pyramid at Giza shown in a video of the ...