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

The Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx might be Egypt's superstars, but look beyond them and you'll find intriguing myths, a warm modern-day culture, and a very human side to ancient history—and ...

Some of history's most famous stories may be far less certain than generations have been taught. The legendary Trojan Horse is not described in the Iliad, appears only briefly in the Odyssey, and was ...

Are you lumping all of 'Ancient Egypt' together?'Cleopatra' and 'the Pyramids'.When you hear these two words, don't you put them both into the same 'Ancient Egypt' box?Deserts. Pharaohs. Pyramids.

Saqqara stretches across the desert south-west of Gizeh as a cemetery of pyramids, mastabas, decorated tombs and underground ...

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 ...

Excavations in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt have uncovered a mudbrick pyramid tomb from Roman times, which contains a Greek ...

While the Pyramids of Giza are a must-see, they are often overcrowded with tourists. The throngs of visitors can make it hard ...

A buried Nile channel found near Giza may explain how ancient Egyptians hauled stone to build the Great Pyramid.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities An excavation in central Egypt has brought to light burials from several ...

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 ...