Dr. Zahi Hawass says builders were not slaves; they wouldn't have been buried 'in the shadow of the pyramids'.

In the shadow of the Grand Egyptian Museum, souvenir shop owner Mona has been readying for the tourist boom she hoped the ...

Crafted with rare ingredients, Utah homebrewer Dylan McDonnell offers a taste of what pyramid builders may have once enjoyed ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

New evidence reveals that the Pyramids in Egypt were built by paid workers, not slaves, reshaping views on ancient Egyptian ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

A ground-breaking archaeological discovery in Egypt has cast fresh ... been buried in the shadow of the pyramids. Slaves ...

How ancient builders raised the mighty pyramids still captures the curiosity of historians and scientists. Despite decades of digging, high-tech scanning, and countless theories, the puzzle ...

A discovery beneath Egypt’s Great Sphinx has further fuelled the theory of there being an ancient ‘underground city’ beneath the pyramids. Those still obsessed with Ancient Egyptian history after it ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

The project will last at least until the end of 2016, at which point a second phase of scanning will take place for other Egyptian pyramids.