Lepsius' expedition waves the flag of Frederick William IV on top of the Great Pyramid for his birthday (Johann Jacob Frey)/Image: public domain on Wikimedia Commons How many pyramids are there in ...

Preliminary results are presented of the excavations of the Russian Archaeological Mission at Giza in 2006—2008. The objective of the mission's work was the Fifth Dynasty rock-cut tombs on the eastern ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the “missing pyramid” of a pharaoh and a ceremonial procession road where high priests carried mummified remains of sacred bulls, Egypt’s antiquities chief said Thursday.

Archaeologists have concluded that a badly eroded pyramid south of Cairo was built in the 24th century BC, several hundred years earlier than previously suspected. Known as the 'Headless Pyramid', ...