The Western Cemetery holds hundreds of rectangular tombs called mastabas that line the base of Giza's Great Pyramid. These ...

The Pyramid of Khufu — named after its builder, a Fourth Dynasty pharaoh who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C. — is one of three pyramids that make up the Great Pyramids at Giza complex.

No one knows what the void is, but at least one archaeologist believes it's a not a room or chamber filled with artifacts. More than 4,500 years after their construction, the Pyramids of Giza ...

It presides over the plateau of Giza, on the outskirts ... used to build Khufu's pyramid weigh 2.5 tons, and the heaviest blocks, used as the ceiling of Khufu's burial chamber, weigh in at an ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza, thought to have four sides, may actually have eight. Researchers, including British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, uncovered the mystery of its concave faces under ...

Pyramids of Giza: Groups of 3-4 explore tunnels and passages, alternating with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic-inspired poses in the Queen's Chamber (angular shapes) and King's Chamber (animals and ...

And it's no secret that when I went I myself ... NOVA: Why do we still have only limited knowledge about Giza and the construction of the pyramids there? And how do we know what we know about ...

As an inspector of antiquities, I lived in a rest house near the Giza ... sides of the pyramid, where centuries before a great pharaoh may have passed. Reaching the king's burial chamber, I ...