Egypt’s pyramid tradition was already ancient by the time major pyramidal monuments were developing in Mesoamerica. The ...

Ancient Egypt tech reveals how the Great Pyramids were actually built ...

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...

Egyptologist Professor Laurel Bestock rejoins WIRED to break down five discoveries that tell us exactly how the Egyptian pyramids were built; from the Giza quarry to The Diary of Merer, Laurel paints ...

The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have been just for the rich, according to burials found at the archaeological site of Tombos in Sudan. "Our findings suggest that pyramid tombs, once ...

If the new interpretation is correct, it means ancient Egyptians were far better at water management than we thought.

The rarely seen summits of Egypt's Giza pyramids have been revealed in striking new photographs, offering an unusually ...

A groundbreaking study suggests the ancient Egyptians may have used hydraulic power before we could have imagined this skill. They did not utilize just ramps and manpower, to build the Step Pyramid of ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

It's unclear if residents living in the shadows of the Giza pyramids suffered health effects, but the finding offers a glimpse into how they lived. Reading time 3 minutes The construction of Egypt’s ...

War and accumulating sand threaten Sudan’s Meroe pyramids, in photos - ...