For roughly 4,500 years, the interior of the Great Pyramid of Giza has been picked apart by looters, explorers and scientists using everything from battering rams to cosmic-ray detectors. Yet a ...

Touring the pyramids and sailing down the Nile are undoubted highlights of any trip to Egypt — but what else should be on your list?

For more than 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid of Giza has concealed one of history’s most persistent mysteries: how ancient Egyptian workers moved and positioned approximately 2.3 million stone blocks ...

Saqqara west of Gizeh is the desert necropolis of ancient Memphis, where the Step Pyramid of Djoser reshaped Egyptian architecture and still dominates the plateau. On the desert edge west of Gizeh, ...

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 ...