A claim that they received 4 to 5 liters of beer a day has appeared in social media posts, popular articles and books for ...

Zahi Hawass describes some of the private tombs of the Old Kingdom, built in the expectation of continuing needs in the afterlife The Great Pyramids at Giza are surrounded by cemeteries for the ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

The Red Pyramid, completed in the 26th century BC, was the first successful attempt to construct a true pyramid ... making it one of five Old Kingdom Pyramids that retain their original form ...

And in the Old Kingdom in the time of the Pyramids ... about five miles to the east of the pyramid. This is not true. All the stones have been taken from the plateau, except the casing stones ...

Giza's three pyramids and the Sphinx were constructed in the fourth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom, arguably the first great civilization on earth. Today, Giza is a suburb of rapidly growing Cairo ...

It’s still celebrated as the first ‘true’ pyramid, due to its sloping sides ... It's a classic example of Old Kingdom royal tomb sculpture, with both the king's arms down by his sides ...

A new study discovers the answer to how ancient ... pyramids built about 4,500 years ago in Saqqara, Egypt. It is named after Djoser, a pharaoh in the Third Dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom.

In her 1877 book, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, she writes of the hot drive to the edge of the desert, until “the Great Pyramid ... the golden age of the Old Kingdom, their center of power ...

Journey back four and a half thousand years to Egypt's Old Kingdom, to the Pyramid Age. As the vizier, or head of state, you are about to undertake the building of the king's pyramid.

This is a tool that the Ancient Egyptians used. See the way it's a bit broken? Well, that's because it's very old. We call this kind of object an artefact. An artefact gives us a little window ...