Pharaoh Khufu is one of Egypt's most famous pharaohs due to his magnificent tomb, but his body might not exist anymore.

Protection from the Sahara's howling dust storms may have helped the Sphinx maintain its steady gaze over the millennia.

the best known being the Great Pyramid – affiliated with Khufu, the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh buried there. Khafre, Khufu's son, lies entombed in the nearby Pyramid of Khafre. The third structure ...

It was believed that the pyramids, by reflecting sunlight, connected the earth with the sky and the Pharaoh with Ra, the sun god. The Great Pyramid of Giza, built by Pharaoh Khufu between 2551 ...

Other pharaohs’ tombs have been found in Egypt ... Unlike their Old and Middle Kingdom predecessors, who built pyramids as funerary monuments, New Kingdom rulers preferred more secluded tombs.

The 25th Dynasty originated in Nubia, in what is today Sudan, and ruled over ancient Egypt between 744 and 656 BC.

Amethyst was fashionable in the Middle Kingdom. Archaeologists discovered jewelry belonging to Middle Kingdom queens and princesses in pyramids at a site called Dahshur around 25 miles south of Cairo.

The stunning discovery of a pharaoh’s burial spot last week was a bombshell in the archaeology world. Not since Howard Carter located the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun in 1922 had such a site ...

A new discovery in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza suggests the structure was not just a pharaoh's final resting place, but also a giant power plant. Scientists blasted the 4,600-year-old structure ...

Sixth grade students at the John F. Ryan School learned about the history of ancient Egypt through a unique educational ...