Kirsty Masterman discovers a wealth of history – and Cairo’s famous street food – in the Egyptian capital.

The pyramids at Giza are usually described as the ultimate building project, millions of blocks stacked skyward by sheer human effort. A growing fringe of researchers and online theorists is now ...

After decades of planning and construction, Egypt has officially inaugurated the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in a spectacular ceremony attended by world leaders, royals, and dignitaries. Located near ...

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

Too soon to say if they may indicate undiscovered secret chambers, experts say. — -- While the discovery of "thermal anomalies" at Egypt's Giza pyramids by an international group of scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors walk next the 3,200-year-old pink-granite colossal statue of King Ramses II at the entrance of the Grand Egyptian Museum, ...

There are several ancient monuments proving that our predecessors possessed knowledge of astronomy and used it for practical purposes.

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The Great Pyramid of Giza might get all the headlines, but it wasn't humanity’s first monumental effort. Long before pharaohs were stacking limestone in Egypt, people across the world were carving ...