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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 ...

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 ...

For much of human history, stories about the construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramids were rooted in rumor rather than research. The Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, who famously counted the ...

For centuries, scientists believed that only the elite were buried in pyramids. But a surprising recent discovery of ancient skeletons has thrown that idea into question. In a new study, researchers ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

The Pyramid of Sahura has stood on Egypt’s desert plateau for roughly forty-four centuries, its interior seemingly mapped and remapped by generations of archaeologists. Yet restoration work has now ...

The annual Forever Is Now exhibition, curated by CulturVator and Art D’Egypte, aims to blur the lines between past and present, inviting visitors to explore artworks that look to the intersections ...

03:47, Tue, Dec 9, 2025 Updated: 03:54, Tue, Dec 9, 2025 A team of Italian researchers left the world astounded last March when they revealed the discovery of an enormous subterranean network ...

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From restored Old Cairo to the newly expanded New Cairo, this Egyptian capital is undergoing a sweeping cultural and urban ...