A new claim that the Great Pyramid of Giza could be closer to 20,000 years old than to the 4,500 years accepted by most Egyptologists has jolted one of archaeology’s most settled timelines. The ...

The latest breakthrough in pyramid research did not begin in the desert but in orbit, where radar images from space have traced a lost branch of the Nile that once flowed beside Egypt’s most famous ...

There are several ancient monuments proving that our predecessors possessed knowledge of astronomy and used it for practical purposes.

Even walking the magnificent staircase leading to the exhibitions holds real grandeur; lined with statues of ancient kings and queens, a huge window on one of the upper floors gives a perfectly framed ...

During his trip to Egypt, Elisofon visited Jīzah, Ahrāmāt al-, the site of three pyramids from the 4th dynasty (ca. 2613-ca. 2494), built on a rocky plateau near al-Jizah (Giza); one of the Seven ...

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