In January, 18-year-old German tourist Andrej Ciesielski scaled the Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo. The pyramid is about 480 feet tall and more than 4,500 years old, so climbing the pyramid is illegal, to prevent damage to the monument. According to a …

In January, 18-year-old German tourist Andrej Ciesielski scaled the Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo. The pyramid is about 480 feet tall and more than 4,500 years old, so climbing the pyramid is illegal, to prevent damage to the monument. According to a …

The Harvard Semitic Museum opened a new exhibit on 25 February showcasing a recreation of a chair that a Harvard-led team found in a hidden chamber next to the Great Pyramid of Giza in 1925. The recreation process took place under the Giza Project, …

More than 4,000 years ago, Queen Hetepheres of Egypt was buried alongside treasures next to the Great Pyramid at Giza. Today, Harvard researchers have brought a key treasure of her tomb to life: the Queen's very throne. The Harvard Semitic Museum …

As I stood alone in the silent, darkened King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza, staring into the sarcophagus that had been hollowed from red granite at least 4,500 years ago, my thoughts swirled.

The battle for the title of the world's tallest structure has been furiously fought over throughout history, with engineers engaged in a constant battle of one-upmanship. Since the lofty ambitions of the Great Pyramid of Giza, which was the world's …

Since the lofty ambitions of the Great Pyramid of Giza, which was the world's highest at 146.5 metres when it was built, man-made structures have gone stratospheric – a skyscraper currently under construction in Saudi Arabia is set to be the first …

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Egyptian King Tutankhamen's tomb was unsealed in the Valley of Kings on this day in 1923. It took British archeologist Howard Carter nearly ten years to find it. King Tut's tomb was found buried under workmen's huts; …

The Great Pyramid at Giza is missing the capstone at the apex – this was believed to be made of gold (or another precious material). Reporting in Nanotechnology, researchers present the design and fabrication of a much smaller-scale gold pyramid film …

There are no elaborate pictures or inscriptions anywhere on the interior walls of the Great Pyramid in Egypt to explain why or how it was constructed. Egyptologists have always assumed pyramids were built as burial places for pharaohs. Yet in the Great …