The Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx might be Egypt's superstars, but look beyond them and you'll find intriguing myths, a warm modern-day culture, and a very human side to ancient history—and ...

Saqqara stretches across the desert south-west of Gizeh as a cemetery of pyramids, mastabas, decorated tombs and underground ...

The journal Remote Sensing has published a formal retraction of a peer-reviewed piece of research which claimed that satellite radar had uncovered a mysterious series of rooms and tunnels within the ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered two tombs from Egypt’s Early Dynastic Period (3100 B.C. to 2686 B.C.) at Jabal al-Tayr in Minya, Egypt. The discovery reveals how ancient Egyptian funerary ...

New research suggests the Great Pyramid of Giza may have had a whole other purpose.

Excavations in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt have uncovered a mudbrick pyramid tomb from Roman times, which contains a Greek ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities An excavation in central Egypt has brought to light burials from several ...

While the Pyramids of Giza are a must-see, they are often overcrowded with tourists. The throngs of visitors can make it hard ...

The Pyramids of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo in Egypt stand as some of the most iconic and enduring monuments in human ...

Photographs of the rarely visited peak of one of Egypt's ancient pyramids have uncovered a surprising piece of graffiti - ...