King Menkaure's pyramid now has between three and eight rows of the granite blocks around its base, but it originally had 16 rows of the blocks rising up the four sides of the structure.

They were well fed and provided with shelter near the pyramids. Plus their burial sites close ... Menkaure's pyramid, on the other hand, was transported from Aswan, around 600 miles, or 1000 km up ...

document and restore granite blocks that once made up the exterior of the pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the three major pyramids. In videos posted on Facebook, Mostafa Waziry, secretary ...

An Egyptian-Japanese archaeological mission announced the project to put back in place hundreds of granite blocks that used to form the outer casing of the pyramid of King Menkaure, the smallest ...

Egyptian officials canceled their plans to renovate the pyramid of Menkaure last week, citing preservation-related concerns over the project. Officials planned to install cladding made of ancient ...

Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, had announced the plan to clad the smallest of the three, the pyramid of Menkaure, in a video on January 25. The pyramid of ...

The committee appointed to review work at the Menkaure Pyramid on the Giza Plateau has issued its recommendations after the controversy over “recladding” the pyramid, writes Zahi Hawass The ...

The project concerns the Pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the Giza pyramids, built more than 4,000 years ago. The aim is to restore the pyramid to how it may have looked when it was originally ...