Half-lion, half-human, the Sphinx has guarded the Giza Plateau for millennia. Yet its origins and purpose remain fiercely ...

Medieval chronicles describe a cluster of 70 pyramids near Giza that no archaeologist has ever found. Could these missing ...

Egypt said on Wednesday that its much-anticipated new $1-billion archaeological museum near the Pyramids of Giza will ...

Free and clear Modern visitors to the Giza plateau gaze on a Sphinx free of sand, following clearance work carried out in the 1930s. Behind rises the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the tallest of Giza ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza is considered one of the largest single-stone statues on Earth. The sculpture, located near modern-day Cairo, is seen in October 2007. Cris Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images ...

The Pyramid of Khufu — named after 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.

Archaeologists in Egypt have reopened a so-called cursed tomb containing the remains of the people who built the Great Pyramid of Giza. This is the first time it has been opened since its ...

Giza’s long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum has been built with this aim. Expected to open in mid-2020, the $1 billion museum will rehouse and restore some of the country’s most precious relics.

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 ...

It could be the ultimate archaeological discovery: a previously unknown chamber lurking beneath the stones of the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt. Now, a team using a cutting edge imaging technique ...

He confirmed that the Great Pyramid of Giza, also called the Great Pyramid of Khufu — and most pyramids, for that matter — would have originally been constructed with limestone casing stones.