Claims that researchers discovered previously unknown structures beneath the Pyramid of Khafre — the pyramid situated in the ...

More than 2,300,000 limestone and granite blocks were pushed, pulled, and dragged into place on the Great Pyramid. The average weight of a block is about 2.3 metric tons (2.5 tons). How much is that?

Could there be a ‘vast underground city’ beneath the Pyramids of Giza? Egypt’s desert holds many secrets, even after ...

Scribes set about calculating the number of blocks that would be required to build a pyramid with the selected gradient—in the case of Khufu, the angle of the sides with the ground is 52 degrees ...

The pyramids of Giza are impressive, but to experience even more of Egypt's history without throngs of tourists, visit this ...

Walsh pointed out uncanny mathematical alignments in the pyramid: its height multiplied ... With 70-ton boulders among its 2 million blocks, Walsh claimed it’s “impossible” for Egyptians ...

On average, the over two million blocks of stone used to build Khufu's pyramid weigh 2.5 tons, and the heaviest blocks, used as the ceiling of Khufu's burial chamber, weigh in at an estimated nine ...

And they constructed the Great Pyramid to send the king there. The pyramid is a solid mass of limestone blocks, except for passages and chambers. From an entrance on the north face, passages lead ...