From restored Old Cairo to the newly expanded New Cairo, this Egyptian capital is undergoing a sweeping cultural and urban ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Fresh research on an ancient—and now lost—branch of the Nile River shows how ...

Discoveries about Egypt's pyramids are not over. The most recent one concerns the Pyramid of Menkaure: an international team ...

Thirty-one different Egyptian pyramids appear to have been built along a branch of the Nile River that dried up millennia ago, according to new research published today in Communications Earth & ...

The residents of Sudan were the most prolific pyramid builders, constructing between 200 and 255 pyramids, compared to their ...

From the glass atrium of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the three great Pyramids of Giza are perfectly framed on the desert horizon. The architects designed it this way; a deliberate alignment connecting ...

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

The Giza Pyramids are among the best documented construction projects of the ancient world, yet a stubborn slice of popular culture still credits them to visitors from another planet. I want to ...

The speed of light, and the latitude of the ancient Egyptian Great Pyramid of Giza, are the same figure, but what does this actually mean?