From the aerial vantage point, it is possible to see that the sides of the Great Pyramid of Giza are significantly indented along their middles. The realization that the outer layer of the Great ...

Once the base was laid out, they could begin building. The Great Pyramid is made up from more than 200 horizontal layers of limestone blocks. The area of each layer is slightly less than the one ...

Investigating a burial site at the ancient village of Tombos, archaeologists have re-written their own rule book when it ...

Each side of the Great Pyramid rises at an angle of 51.5 degrees to the top. Not only that, each of the sides are aligned almost exactly with true north, south, east, and west. For a pyramid to ...

In 1954, Egyptian archeologist Kamal el Mallakh, acting on a hunch, dug under a stone wall on the south side of the Great Pyramid. Beneath a layer of earth mixed with wood chips, charcoal ...

"This limestone layer gave the pyramids a smooth and shiny ... connected the earth with the sky and the Pharaoh with Ra, the sun god. The Great Pyramid of Giza, built by Pharaoh Khufu between ...