Egypt has installed for the first time a state-of-the-art air purification system inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, to safeguard its fragile chambers ...

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 ...

A secret doorway inside an ancient Egyptian pyramid is believed to have been discovered by a scientist, over 4,500 years on from when it was originally built. The Pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of ...

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The story of the highly skilled workers who helped build Egypt’s Great Pyramid is emerging from a papyrus cache unearthed at the world’s oldest harbor On a summer afternoon around 4,600 years ago, ...