most were built as tombs for the country's pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. However, the most famous are in Egypt, including the spectacular Pyramid of Gaza ...

Giza's three pyramids and the Sphinx were constructed in the fourth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom, arguably the first great civilization on earth. Today, Giza is a suburb of rapidly growing Cairo ...

This is a tool that the Ancient Egyptians used. See the way it's a bit broken? Well, that's because it's very old. We call this kind of object an artefact. An artefact gives us a little window ...

A new study discovers the answer to how ancient ... pyramids built about 4,500 years ago in Saqqara, Egypt. It is named after Djoser, a pharaoh in the Third Dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom.

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

This is where our history of Egypt begins, in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza ... the fourth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom was a highly advanced civilization where the kings, known ...

Keep reading to learn all about why ancient Egypt was so influential. People might claim that the Egyptian pyramids were built by aliens, or even the inhabitants of Atlantis. But that's not true ...

After that, the wider region was ruled by two Macedonian empires: Egypt’s Ptolemaic kingdom ... Such ancient artifacts, including those recently found at the pyramid site, have survived in ...

What we see is just the tip. But no one dreamed before now that the same might be true of Egypt’s Great Pyramids at Giza, the last surviving wonders of the ancient world. To international ...