The Western Cemetery holds hundreds of rectangular tombs called mastabas that line the base of Giza's Great Pyramid. These ...

KASUGA, Fukuoka Prefecture--Japanese researchers plan to bombard the Great Pyramid of Giza outside Cairo with cosmic rays to confirm if there is a mysterious internal “chamber” that a previous ...

The Pyramid of Khufu — named after its builder, a Fourth Dynasty pharaoh who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C. — is one of three pyramids that make up the Great Pyramids at Giza complex.

The officials say it could have been created to redistribute the pyramid's weight around the entrance or another as yet undiscovered chamber ... was built on the Giza plateau during the fourth ...

It presides over the plateau of Giza, on the outskirts ... used to build Khufu's pyramid weigh 2.5 tons, and the heaviest blocks, used as the ceiling of Khufu's burial chamber, weigh in at an ...

No one knows what the void is, but at least one archaeologist believes it's a not a room or chamber filled with artifacts. More than 4,500 years after their construction, the Pyramids of Giza ...

At 140m (460 feet) in height, it is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids located at Giza on the outskirts of ... not to describe the cavity as a "chamber". Khufu contains compartments that experts ...

Pyramids of Giza: Groups of 3-4 explore tunnels and passages, alternating with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic-inspired poses in the Queen's Chamber (angular shapes) and King's Chamber (animals and ...

As an inspector of antiquities, I lived in a rest house near the Giza ... sides of the pyramid, where centuries before a great pharaoh may have passed. Reaching the king's burial chamber, I ...