This is where the jokingly called [History for Granite] channel on YouTube has now pitched some new ideas, involving the casing stones that used to fully cover the Pyramid of Khafre, prior to ...

Now, a team of engineers and geologists brings a new theory to the table — a hydraulic lift device that would have floated the heavy stones up through the middle of Egypt’s oldest pyramid ...

The stone is the only casing stone from the Great Pyramid of Giza to be displayed outside Egypt The only casing stone from the Great Pyramid of Giza to be displayed anywhere outside Egypt is to go ...

OK, so how do we know this—you come to a block of stone in the relieving chambers above the Great Pyramid. And first of all you see this cartouche of a King and then some scrawls all in red ...

Engineers might have cracked the code for how the ancient Egyptians built their first pyramids. A new study suggests that ...

The location of the entrance to Egypt's 'floating' pyramid stumped archaeologists for years, but the nearby village is the ...

As pressure built, it eventually caused the stones to give way. The pyramid is located at the Ihuatzio Archaeological Zone, ...

On average, the over two million blocks of stone used to build Khufu's pyramid weigh 2.5 tons, and the heaviest blocks, used as the ceiling of Khufu's burial chamber, weigh in at an estimated nine ...

The largest, the Great Pyramid of Giza, was originally 147 metres tall and is made up of about 2.3 million stone blocks, each weighing between 2.5 and 15 tonnes. Each would have had to be ...

Stairway to HeavenThe step pyramid in Saqqara, south of Giza, was Egypt’s first. Built for the 3rd-dynasty pharaoh Djoser in 2650 B.C., the 204-foot structure was built of stone instead of ...

Walking up it, we saw clearly for the first time what the huge stone blocks we hauled from the quarry were being used to build. We saw the pyramid. Miranda Krestovnikoff presents an analysis of ...

I became a master stone mover. It was my job to guide into position the great granite blocks to make the roof of the king's burial chamber. This holy chamber was the centre of the pyramid - its ...