Built over 4,500 years ago for Pharaoh Khufu, the Great Pyramid of Giza has stood as one of humanity’s most iconic and mysterious feats of engineering. This weekend showed that America’s ...

The Pyramid of Khufu – named after its builder, a Fourth Dynasty pharaoh who reigned from 2509 to 2483 BC – is one of three pyramids that make up the Great Pyramids at Giza complex.

Ahmed Issa, Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minister, said that the “gabled corridor” with a triangular ceiling “was found on the northern face of the Great Pyramid of King Khufu”. The discovery was ...

Great debate Since at least the time of the ancient Greeks, there has been considerable debate about exactly how the Egyptians constructed King Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza.

14 July 2005 For years scholars have believed that the pyramid of King Khufu, largest of the three "great" pyramids at Giza, had been plundered in antiquity and everything of value, including the body ...