Egyptian authorities have signaled that a forthcoming announcement tied to the Great Pyramid of Giza will force a rethinking of how the 4,500-year-old structure was built. The claim follows a chain of ...

A passage leading to a sealed door Speaking at a public panel, veteran Egyptologist Zahi Hawass announced that advanced ...

Archaeologists in Egypt just cracked open two ancient tombs that nobody’s seen in millennia, and what they found inside could ...

Differences in how the pyramid and surrounding soil vibrate, along with design choices, have protected the structure from earthquakes.

Somehow, while the rest of the ancient Egyptian world has crumbled around it, the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza remains standing, even after 4,600 years.

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s antiquities authorities on Thursday unveiled a newly discovered, sealed-off chamber inside one of the Great Pyramids at Giza, just outside of Cairo, that dates back some 4,500 ...

May 21 (Reuters) - If ever there were a structure built to stand the test of time, it surely would be the Great Pyramid of Giza, a transcendent monument to human imagination and ambition. Since being ...

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 ...

Over the past 4,600 years, the Great Pyramid of Giza has weathered a dozen or so major earthquakes. Most recently, the 5.9 magnitude Cairo earthquake of 1992 dislodged some casing stones from the ...