The architect of the Great Pyramid of Giza is generally believed to have been a man named Hemiunu. What do we really know ...

The Giza Pyramids are among the best documented construction projects of the ancient world, yet a stubborn slice of popular culture still credits them to visitors from another planet. I want to ...

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 ...

The pyramids in and around Giza have presented a fascinating puzzle for millennia. How did ancient Egyptians move limestone blocks, some weighing more than a ton, without using wheels? Why were these ...

Fossilized pollen shows grasses and marshes once reached near the site of the Great Pyramid of Giza. An aridification of East Africa likely depleted the branch of the Nile River that flowed close to ...

The Giza Plateau shows clear evidence of large-scale bedrock engineering that goes beyond pyramid construction. Excavations ...