The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

For much of human history, stories about the construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramids were rooted in rumor rather than research. The Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, who famously counted the ...

A research team led by Khaled Helal from Cairo University recently decided to run radar over the flat areas near Giza. They ...

Located approximately 40 kilometers southwest of Cairo, Saqqara is one of the most important cemeteries of Memphis. Memphis was one of the most strategically important cities ...

After two decades under construction, Egypt has officially thrown open the doors to the largest archeological museum in the world, spanning 94 football fields (5.4 million sq ft or 500,000 sq m) and ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

Finally, the Grand Egyptian Museum officially opened on November 1. The museum, which had repeatedly delayed its opening, ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, decades in the making, is part of plans to draw more tourists to Egypt — Khaled DESOUKI Egypt officially opened on Saturday the Grand Egyptian Museum, a long-awaited, ...