The Great Pyramid still has a way of turning a familiar façade into an engineering question. Above Khufu’s main northern entrance, behind the giant chevron stones long understood as part of the ...

“We’re going to continue our scanning so we will see what we can do to figure out what we can find out beneath it, or just by the end of this corridor,” said Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt’s Supreme ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza—the largest of Egypt’s pyramids—consists of about 2.3 million limestone blocks. The smallest of these weigh two tons, while the largest weigh over 60. History says laborers ...

Two years ago, a team of research scientists announced they would use muon tomography to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu. They planned to image internal ...

See also related article by Jean-François Augereau, "Will the Great Pyramid yield up its secrets?" Manchester guardian weekly (September 14, 1986, page 12 (VF-- Art, Egypt).