Attached to one side of a standard Meroë pyramid was a chapel, its entrance formed by twin tapering pylons. Inside, it was common to place a stela, an offering table, and a distinctive element of ...

Details current archaeological work and scientific reasoning behind the decisions made about where to dig and the items found at the excavation of Giza. Discusses many popular theories of who ...

The excavations at Meroe were begun in 1920 ... "In the debris of a ruined pyramid belonging to a child of the royal family who had made their tombs in the Southern cemetery," says Dr. Reisner ...

Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass write of Khafre: "He was, after all, perhaps the greatest maker of statues of the Pyramid Age ... in tall niches inside the entrances of the Valley Temple; 23 life ...

Popular and sometimes controversial YouTuber James Stephen Donaldson, known on YouTube as "MrBeast", has revealed he has ...

From Mesoamerica to North Africa, pyramids were apparently all the rage in the ancient world. Yet while the triangular ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

CAIRO -- Egypt’s antiquities authorities on Thursday unveiled a newly discovered, sealed-off chamber inside one of the Great Pyramids at Giza, just outside of Cairo, that dates back some 4,500 ...

When people think of pyramids, Egypt’s towering monuments are often the first that come to mind. However, Africa is home to many more pyramids than most realise, some of which are lesser-known ...