Did you know the Great Pyramid of Khufu was once 481.4 feet tall? It was built about 4,500 years ago. Today, it stands as a ...

When we think of the Egyptian pyramids, we of course think of the Giza Plateau, the Great Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khafre and ...

An expert committee commissioned to review a contentious plan to reconstruct the outside of Giza's smallest pyramid says "there is no way" it can happen.

The Pyramid of Menkaure — erected as the tomb of King Menkaure sometime around 2,000 BC — is the only known pyramid in Egypt that was built with an outer shell of granite blocks, ...

Pharaoh Menkaure, grandson of the Great Pyramid’s builder Khufu and son of Khafre, commissioned this Pyramid as his eternal resting place. Menkaure’s reign, lasting around 20 years, is ...

The focal point is the restoration of the granite casing of the Menkaure Pyramid, the smallest of the three Great Pyramids on the Pyramids Plateau outside Cairo, which has led to both enthusiasm ...

Menkaure was the only pyramid designed to be clad in granite rather than limestone. Only 16 to 18 layers of granite were installed before construction was halted, apparently because of pharaoh ...

This picture taken on July 1, 2020 shows a general view of (R to L) the Great Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops), the Pyramid of Khafre (Chephren), and the Pyramid of Menkaure (Menkheres) at the Giza ...

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.

When ancient Egyptians built King Menkaure's pyramid more than 4,000 years ago, they did it a little differently. Now archaeologists want to put it back together.