A Millennium of Pyramids, and Then Silence For well over a thousand years, from the reign of King Djoser (2630–2611 BCE) up until Ahmose I (1550–1525 BCE), Egyptian rulers built pyramid after pyramid, ...

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 ...

Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure built their massive tombs to last. For more than 4,000 years, the Pyramids of Giza ...

The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have been just for the rich, according to burials found at the archaeological site of Tombos in Sudan. "Our findings suggest that pyramid tombs, once ...

The rarely seen summits of Egypt's Giza pyramids have been revealed in striking new photographs, offering an unusually ...

Egypt may dominate the popular image of pyramids, but China is home to dozens of confirmed pyramid-like imperial tombs, with some claims putting the true number far higher. Many have become covered in ...

Egyptologist Professor Laurel Bestock rejoins WIRED to break down five discoveries that tell us exactly how the Egyptian pyramids were built; from the Giza quarry to The Diary of Merer, Laurel paints ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking study suggests the ancient Egyptians may have used hydraulic power before we could have imagined this skill. They did not utilize just ramps and manpower, to build the Step Pyramid of ...

War and accumulating sand threaten Sudan’s Meroe pyramids, in photos - ...