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 ...

Using 3-D models, one archaeologist is recording the structures’ exact measurements.

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

The mystery of how ancient Egyptians developed the skills to build their world-famous pyramids may have taken a major twist.

Egypt's pyramids have fascinated the world for centuries, with the methods used to build the monuments with such ...

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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 ...

Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile river that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the ...

A new study aims to answer the centuries-old question of how the Great Pyramids were built thousands of years ago, and its findings have provided an unexpected possible answer: water. Though deserts ...

Two 5,000-year-old tombs recently unearthed at Jabal al-Tayr, Egypt, resemble the royal tomb of King Hor-Den at Abydos. The tombs’ construction suggests their builders understood structural ...