The people of Meroe elaborated on this theme ... at Sedeinga have a round masonry structure inside that would not have supported the walls of the pyramid. “They have no structural purpose ...

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 ...

When you think of pyramids, your mind probably jumps to Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza. But did you know that the world’s ...

Technology has allowed us to see things like never before, and a robot has recorded footage from the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Yet while the triangular monuments are most synonymous with Egypt, the world’s largest collection of pyramids actually ...

Despite popular belief, Egypt is not home to the world’s largest number of pyramids. The residents of this African country were, in fact, the most prolific pyramid builders in history ...