The Great Pyramids of Giza are one of the world's seven ancient wonders. Amid the arid Egyptian desert stands a complex of massive pyramids that once served as the tombs for powerful rulers of the 4th ...

The pyramids of Egypt are history’s ultimate “wait, that can’t be real” achievements. These ancient wonders were built thousands of years ago, yet they remain taller, heavier, and way more mysterious ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris ...

The Pyramid of Giza rises from the desert sands and has sparked questions for centuries. People stand before it and instantly ...

If you think the pyramids were built by slaves under the whip, think again. Archaeologists found that the pyramid construction team was organized much like a modern construction company. People worked ...

Just inside the entrance of Cairo’s must-see Egyptian Museum is an unassuming display case off to the left. Competing for attention in a sea of head-turning antiquities — from towering statues to ...

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