Erected over 4,600 years ago, the Pyramid of Djoser in Egypt is considered to be the first pyramid in human history. This ...

What did the ancient Greeks and Egyptians call the pyramids, and what did these ancient words originally mean?

The Great Pyramid of Giza, towering at 147 meters and holding the record as the tallest man-made structure for nearly 4,000 ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian antiquities officials announced on Thursday the discovery of a hidden nine metre-long corridor behind the main entrance of the Great Pyramid of Giza that they said could ...

Most visitors never experience the natural masterpieces that lie off the tourist trail—from bubbling hot springs to unearthly landscapes of dead volcanoes to the “Valley of the Whales.” ...

From a desert monument in Oman with a soaring spike to a colourful waterside pavilion in Japan to a grand museum in Egypt ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza has stood guard over the desert for thousands of years. Carved from limestone and towering beside the pyramids, it remains a powerful symbol of ancient ingenuity.

The Great Sphinx of Giza ... limestone containing fossilized coral and plankton. “The Sphinx,” Hawass concluded in his 2006 book Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid ...

The Pyramids of Giza rise from the west ... of their outer casings of polished white limestone, they no longer reach their original heights. Today the Great Pyramid stands at 450 feet.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, built by Pharaoh Khufu between ... Over the centuries, the white limestone coating of the pyramids started vanishing. According to Egyptologist Mark Lehner, the ...