Earth bricks, upcycled materials and local craftsmanship combine in the Cheops Observatory, a new residence designed by Paris-based architecture firm Studio Malka. Located within the ancient village ...

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 "huge ...

CAIRO – Egypt is inaugurating its largest on-site antiquities laboratory, to restore the second ceremonial boat of Pharaoh Cheops, known for building the largest of Egypt's iconic pyramids. The ...

Sakuji Yoshimura, the director of the Institute of Egyptology, Waseda University, center, leaves the site of Cheops' second solar boat below the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt, Wednesday, March 29, 2017 ...

Tourists from Herodotus to Rita Hayworth have swarmed around the gigantic base of Pharaoh Cheops’ pyramid, which stands in the desert on the outskirts of modern Cairo. None of them, until this week, ...

A previously unidentified chamber in the Cheops pyramid of Giza has been found by an international research team. Measurements from as early as 2016 had given cause to believe that there might be a ...

The Great Pyramid of Cheops in Giza, Egypt, was built about 4,500 years ago as a mausoleum for King Khufu -- his Greek name was Cheops. But even if many archeologists have worked on the site, nobody ...

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CAIRO — Egypt’s famed pyramids at Giza have a newcomer in their midst: the largest on-site antiquities laboratory meant to restore the location’s second pharaonic boat. The vessel is believed to be ...