The Role of Laborers in Pyramid Construction The Tombos site sheds new light on the role of laborers in both pyramid construction and burial practices. The skeletal remains indicate a mix of ...

Archaeologists are stunned after discovering what they believe could be an ancient city under the pyramids of Giza. A vast, prehistoric city buried beneath the Pyramids of Giza. It’s an extraordinary ...

It rose about 481 feet (146 meters) high and is the tallest pyramid ever built. Khufu would have been buried inside of the pyramid but today all that remains is part of a granite sarcophagus.

The pyramid was covered with tura limestone, most of which is gone today. In earlier times, pharaohs were buried in smaller mastaba tombs, which robbers could reach by digging in from the top ...

In order to access the tomb of pharaoh Nastasen, archaeologists had to excavate the processional staircase that leads to the burial chambers deep below his pyramid at Nuri. Photograph by Stephanie ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that ancient Egyptian pyramids were reserved for the richest members of society – but an analysis of burials at ... merit a place in pyramid tombs too.

Investigations at the Karazhartas pyramid have identified a sarcophagus structure surrounded by granite stones, which was found in the burial chamber. Inside the sarcophagus, researchers found a ...

Egyptian antiquities workers watch recently discovered artifacts at the site of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara ... the uncovering of a 15-meter-deep burial shaft where a "large rectangular ...

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 temple-pyramid is in Moral-Reforma, an ancient Mayan settlement, according to experts. INAH Archaeologists recently unearthed a massive burial site hidden beneath a towering temple-pyramid in ...