A plan to cover a Giza pyramid with granite cladding has been called “absurd” after its proponents promised it would deliver “a gift from Egypt to the world”. The project aims to restore the Pyramid ...

It may have been over 4,500 years since the Great Pyramid of Giza was built, but it still remains a mystery as to how the last of the world’s ‘seven wonders’ was constructed. Now physicists have ...

An Egyptian renovation that will see a pyramid clad in granite blocks has been likened to 'straightening the Tower of Pisa' by experts. Work at Egypt's Menkaure pyramid at Giza shown in a video of the ...

The claim of Semir Osmanagic that the hills surrounding Visoko, Bosnia, represent human-built pyramids is a classic example of arguing from personal incredulity, a fallacious form of argumentation ...

In partially solving a mystery that has baffled archeologists for centuries, a Drexel University professor has determined that the Great Pyramids of Giza were constructed with a combination of not ...

The Menkaure Pyramid Review Committee (MPRC) has unanimously rejected a plan to restore the granite casing blocks scattered around the base of the smallest of three Pyramids of Giza for thousands of ...

Bradley Walsh, host of The Chase, stirred debate by suggesting that Egyptians didn’t build the Great Pyramid of Giza, hinting at an “outside force.” Walsh pointed out uncanny mathematical alignments ...

Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza were built to endure an eternity, but how remains one of the ancient world’s greatest mysteries. Here’s what archaeologists know. The Pyramids of Giza rise behind Egypt’s ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt at ...