Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza were built to endure an eternity, but how remains one of the ancient world’s greatest mysteries.

Ancient Egypt. Pyramids. A video for KS2 pupils exploring pyramids in Ancient Egypt - their construction, purpose and the ways they evolved. BBC Teach.

Ancient Egyptians used ‘volcano fashion’ and incredible machines to build pyramids ...

A new, non-peer-reviewed report argues that Egypt’s Great Pyramid may be far older than the familiar Old Kingdom timeline, proposing an age in the order of tens of thousands of years. The claim hinges ...

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 ...

There are several ancient monuments proving that our predecessors possessed knowledge of astronomy and used it for practical purposes.

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 ...

A new claim that the Great Pyramid of Giza could be closer to 20,000 years old than to the 4,500 years accepted by most ...

A study has shown evidence that Egypt's first pyramid, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, may have been built using hydraulic power, with signs of water facilities.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest of the three pyramids on the Giza plateau and one of the last surviving Seven ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...