The pyramid, which was plundered by tomb robbers thousands of years ago, was built by King Cheops, who was also known as Khufu, in 2,500BC.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only wonder of the ancient world that has survived to the present day. The tomb is attributed to Khufu or Cheops, pharaoh in ancient Egypt from 2,620 to 2,580 B.C.

Scientists uncover a previously hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza. A previously unidentified chamber in the Cheops pyramid of Giza has been found by an international research team.

Many of Egypt's most famous monuments, such as the Sphinx and Cheops pyramid at Giza, contain hundreds of thousands of marine fossils, according to a new study. Most of the fossils are intact and ...

In early November 2017, Nature published the results of the Scan Pyramids project, led by Mehdi Tayoubi (Hip Institute, Paris) and Kunihiro Morishima (University of Nagoya, Japan): there is a ...

Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim formed a committee of experts to investigate illegal excavations inside the Great Pyramid, also known as the Pyramid of Cheops, after discovering that parts of the ...