The Great Scar is one of the most overlooked features of the Great Pyramid. Created by later intrusion, it accidentally exposed internal construction details never meant to be visible. These layers, ...
Tabloids have seized on the most headline-friendly takeaway - “pulleys built the pyramid” - but the underlying claim is more specific: the pyramid may have grown “inside-out,” using internal sloped ...
Weill Cornell Medicine in New York says known passageways in the Giza monument worked together to move over two million ...
The Great Pyramid of Giza—the largest of Egypt’s pyramids—consists of about 2.3 million limestone blocks. The smallest of these weigh two tons, while the largest weigh over 60. History says laborers ...
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the last remaining wonder of the ancient world. — -- Egypt's antiquities ministry says researchers should not have rushed to publicly announce this week the ...
Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...