Children ride a donkey near the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt. Built around 2650 B.C., it's considered Egypt's oldest pyramid and was built at a time when the Nile became "tame" enough ...

Egypt is most known for its Great Pyramid of Giza or for luxury resorts on both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Often overlooked is one of the country’s most spectacular landscapes, White ...

More than 30 pyramids in Egypt, including in Giza, may have been built along a branch of the Nile that has long since disappeared, a new study suggests.

The third-largest pyramid in Egypt, it was built around 2,600 BC for Pharaoh Snefru. Nowadays, this iconic 105 m-high ...

More than 100 pyramids were constructed between 4700 and 3500 years ago as grand tombs for Egypt’s pharaohs. Thirty-one of these, including the pyramids of Dahshur, Giza and Saqqara, are dotted ...

Experts looked at the landscape around the pyramid as well as the tunnels and interior of the structure and say they have found evidence that the ancient Egyptians might have used a water-based ...

Thousands of monumental structures built from walls of rock in Saudi Arabia are older than Egypt's pyramids and the ancient stone circles of Britain, researchers say – making them perhaps the ...