Many of the 50,000 artifacts in the GEM were moved from the Egyptian Museum, a packed, century-old building in downtown Cairo ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, decades in the making, hopes to show off a nation’s history on the biggest scale possible ...

The Pyramids of Giza, seen here with the Milky Way in the background, are not Egypt's oldest pyramids. Pyramids are iconic symbols of the ancient pharaohs' power and technological prowess that still ...

After years of delays, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum – set to be the world’s largest devoted to ancient Egypt – will ...

The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

A new theory shows the Great Pyramid was built from the inside out, using counterweights and pulleys instead of massive ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Jimmy Corsetti spends a lot of time thinking about sharp edges. Specifically, the sharp edges of the hundreds of granite blocks stacked on top of each other to form the Valley Temple in front of the ...

The Step Pyramid of King Djoser, on the Saqqara plateau in northern Egypt, is an awesome feat of engineering, and experts still do not understand the techniques used to erect it. Built about 4,500 ...

"Landreau et al. estimate that Egyptian builders could have captured between 4 million and 54 cubic meters of water over the two or three decades it took to complete the Step Pyramid." "Landreau et al ...

It’s one thing to explore one of the Wonders of the World—both new and classic—without leaving your house. It’s another to build one. LEGO’s newest build is doing just that. This summer, the company ...