At the same time, the imaginary line that roughly joins the southeast corners of the three pyramids points toward the temple of Re in Heliopolis. circa 2550 B.C. Khufu, second king of Egypt’s ...

Provides a brief orientation to the Pharaonic period and includes information about the ancient Egypt landscape, pre-Pharaoh politics, and the importance of pyramids in Egyptian spiritual beliefs.

Egypt's three iconic pyramids at Giza dominate the landscape and the smallest of structures survived an attempt to destroy it ...

providing new evidence that an extinct branch of the Nile River once weaved through the landscape in a much wetter climate.

A plan to add granite blocks to the outside of a pyramid in Egypt has been stopped, according to the country's tourism minister. The project to cover the smallest of the three great pyramids of ...