From the glass atrium of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the three great Pyramids of Giza are perfectly framed on the desert horizon. The architects designed it this way; a deliberate alignment connecting ...

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Pictured is part of the exhibit. “Egyptian Pharaohs: From Cheops to Ramses II” Immersive Experience Makes U.S. Debut October 3rd at South Florida PBS Studios South Florida PBS has announced the U.S.

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...

American paratroopers joined allied nations and partners Saturday in the Bright Star multinational partnership jump at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. The exercise aimed to show multinational airborne ...

A new study aims to answer the centuries-old question of how the Great Pyramids were built thousands of years ago, and its findings have provided an unexpected possible answer: water. Though deserts ...

Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered an exoplanet that may be triggering its host star to release massive ...

Ground-penetrating radar has helped archeologists identify buried wonders below the surface. Now, a study from Japanese and Egyptian researchers reveals the discovery of an L-shaped structure along ...

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Tourists from Herodotus to Rita Hayworth have swarmed around the gigantic base of Pharaoh Cheops’ pyramid, which stands in the desert on the outskirts of modern Cairo. None of them, until this week, ...