One of the enduring mysteries of the pyramids – how ancient Egyptians managed to transport the huge stones used in their construction – may have been solved, with researchers discovering that ...

The Egyptians might have been even cleverer engineers than archeologists thought when they built the pyramids at Giza. Archeologists have long struggled to explain how the Egyptians got blocks ...

And it may have been used to build the Great Pyramid, which is comprised of 2.3 million limestone and granite blocks, the average of which weighs 2.5 tons.

Even with cranes, helicopters, tractors and trucks at our disposal, it would be tough to construct the Great Pyramid of Giza today. Its construction 4,500 years ago is so astounding in some people ...

And it may have been used to build the Great Pyramid, which is comprised of 2.3 million limestone and granite blocks, the average of which weighs 2.5 tons.

How an ancient civilization was able to build such large structures without the assistance of modern technology has baffled the world for generations. And while the popular theory that they were ...

Most people who visit Egypt, or read about ancient Egyptian civilization in their middle school history textbooks, learn that the complex of pyramids and temples in Giza was built somewhere around ...

Built 4,500 years ago during Egypt’s Old Kingdom, the Pyramids of Giza are more than elaborate tombs — they’re also one of historians’ best sources of insight into how the ancient ...