How did the ancient world’s most famous monument become, at ground level, a triumph of scheduling, transport, storage, and water management? The answer comes not from legend but from paperwork. In ...

“We’re going to continue our scanning so we will see what we can do… to figure out what we can find out beneath it, or just ...

Tourist photos are by now a centuries-old cliché, particularly in the case of those landmarks that have been photographed millions of times over. But a group of Russian photographers just found a way ...

Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking new theory on how Egypt's Great Pyramid was built, positing that they had to use a pulley and counterweight weight system to erect it so quickly. It was a ...

From the glass atrium of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the three great Pyramids of Giza are perfectly framed on the desert horizon. The architects designed it this way; a deliberate alignment connecting ...

Two years ago, a team of research scientists announced they would use muon tomography to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu. They planned to image internal ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...

The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves between the ancient and the modern. The ancient story chronicles, step-by-step, how a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age could construct ...