Thirty-one different Egyptian pyramids appear to have been built along a branch of the Nile River that dried up millennia ago, according to new research published today in Communications Earth ...

How did ancient Egyptians move limestone blocks, some weighing more than a ton, without using wheels? Why were these burial structures seemingly built ... the pyramids to river ports along the ...

Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile river that once ... The strip near the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis includes the Great Pyramid of Giza -- the only surviving ...

The researchers who claimed to have found a vast underground city beneath Egypt’s Great Pyramids doubled down on the wild ...

The mystery of how ancient Egyptians ... near the pyramid base, the counterweight machine could have lifted them into position with remarkable efficiency. Historical records indicate that the Nile ...

Now, an important part of the mystery of the Egyptian pyramids ... of a former river branch running along the foothills of the Western Desert Plateau, very near to the pyramids.

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ...

The pyramids ... Ancient Egypt controlled parts of Sudan at times and Tombos was established as an Egyptian colony. Tombos is located at the third cataract of the Nile River in Sudan.

The honor of Egypt’s oldest necropolis belongs to ... the researchers hypothesize a previously unexplained structure near the Step Pyramid likely functioned as a “check dam” for capturing ...