Cairo — Archaeologists have launched a huge project to restore the smallest of Giza's three famous pyramids to what they believe it looked like when it was built more than 4,000 years ago. An Egyptian ...

There is good and bad news for those planning to visit Egypt this summer to explore the Pyramids of Giza. While the largest pyramid, Khufu, remains closed for maintenance, there’s a silver lining. The ...

In 1837, an English army officer named Richard William Howard Vyse used gunpowder and dynamite to blast his way inside the pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the great pyramids of Giza. Although his ...

A plan to cover a Giza pyramid with granite cladding has been called “absurd” after its proponents promised it would deliver “a gift from Egypt to the world”. The project aims to restore the Pyramid ...

The committee appointed to review work at the Menkaure Pyramid on the Giza Plateau has issued its recommendations after the controversy over “recladding” the pyramid, writes Zahi Hawass The Menkaure ...

Bold discoveries often start with quiet whispers from the past-and the Pyramid of Menkaure has just spoken again. For centuries, this smallest of Giza’s three great pyramids has stood in the shadow of ...

As part of the ScanPyramids project, researchers used non-destructive imaging techniques. Archaeologists have discovered two hidden voids inside the Pyramid of Menkaure in Giza, Egypt, potentially ...

Researchers from Cairo and Munich uncovered “air-filled voids” beneath Menkaure pyramid’s eastern face, suggesting a long-suspected hidden entrance. Using electrical resistivity tomography, radar, and ...

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa issued a ministerial decision on Saturday to form a higher scientific committee to review the joint project between the Supreme Council of Antiquities ...

Built around 2510 BC and standing nearly 200 feet tall, Pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three main pyramids of the famous Giza complex. It was built to serve as the tomb of the King ...