So what's so great about the Great Pyramid? Lots of stuff, like its amazing shape and dimensions. Click on the pyramid to find out more. Build a scale model of the Great Pyramid and compare it to ...

In her 1877 book, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, she writes of the hot drive to the edge of the desert, until “the Great Pyramid, in all its unexpected bulk and majesty, towers close above one ...

As one of the most famous Ancient Egyptian pyramids, the Pyramid of Khafre on the plateau of Giza has been a true wonder of the Ancient World ever since its construction around 2570 BCE.

NOVA: What evidence do you have that the pyramids and tombs at Giza were from, as you say, no more than 5,000 years ago. HAWASS: First of all you have inscriptions that are written inside the ...

The age-old enigma of how the Egyptian pyramids were constructed over 4,000 years ago continues to baffle experts. Despite their ancient origins, more than 100 of these architectural marvels are ...

MIRANDA KRESTOVNIKOFF: How and why did the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids? These two questions puzzled generations of people who came across these gigantic, mysterious structures in the ...