Few discoveries stop Egyptologists in their tracks, but this one did. During a routine excavation near Djoser’s Step Pyramid, the oldest of Egypt's pyramids, archaeologists brushed aside centuries of ...

Venture to the windswept sands of Saqqara, home to the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the world's first monumental stone structure ...

How ancient builders raised the mighty pyramids still captures the curiosity of historians and scientists. Despite decades of digging, high-tech scanning, and countless theories, the puzzle remains: ...

For 50 years, Rajan Hooda, MBA ’88, PhD ’90, has been obsessed with a mystery that has baffled archaeologists, architects, and engineers for centuries: How did the ancient Egyptians build the Great ...

Scientists say they have finally solved mystery of how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids. The world has been baffled for thousands of years about just how slave workers transported the massive ...

Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...

CAIRO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - New tombs found in Giza support the view that the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves, as widely believed, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Sunday.

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 ...