Inside the sarcophagus they discovered the boy king's mummy wearing a mask fashioned from gold and semi-precious stones.

“You can’t see us but we see you.” In the early going, a cat calmly follows us. Once we enter a room containing Khufu’s tomb, the electricity goes out and the guide leaves to find help.

Height: 10.8 meters This is the chamber where King Khufu was ultimately buried. Unfortunately, all that remains in this sacred space is the king's sarcophagus made of large blocks of red granite.

When the pyramids were first opened and explored, 19th-century archaeologists found a number of chambers, including one containing a sarcophagus that was thought to contain Khufu himself.

Height: 10.8 meters This is the chamber where King Khufu was ultimately buried. Unfortunately, all that remains in this sacred space is the king's sarcophagus made of large blocks of red granite.

King Khufu's Boat, an ancient vessel that is the oldest and largest wooden boat discovered in Egypt, has been painstakingly moved from its longstanding home next to the Giza pyramids to a nearby ...

Object Details Author Lehner, Mark Subject Hetep-heres Queen, consort of Sneferu, King of Egypt Tomb Date 1985 Call number DT73.G5L44 1985X Type Books Physical description x, 90 p., [6] p. of plates ...

14 July 2005 For years scholars have believed that the pyramid of King Khufu, largest of the three "great" pyramids at Giza, had been plundered in antiquity and everything of value, including the body ...

Archaeologists have found the world's oldest intact sarcophagus near the pyramids of Giza, and it could contain a mummy about 4 500 years old, according to Egypt's top antiquities official.