A series of reconstructions and videos showing how the ancient Egyptians used precise calculations and hard manual labour to build the pyramids in this collection of KS2 History videos.

The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

How the great pyramids of Egypt were built has long been a hotly debated open question, given the sheer size and weight of the limestone blocks used for the construction. Numerous speculative (and ...

"Landreau et al. estimate that Egyptian builders could have captured between 4 million and 54 cubic meters of water over the two or three decades it took to complete the Step Pyramid." "Landreau et al ...

Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile river that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large pyramid made of stone with five distinct levels. A branch of the Nile that no longer exists helped the ancient Egyptians ...

Now, a groundbreaking new theory based on archaeological evidence is challenging this accepted chronology, suggesting that the construction of this iconic structure may have occurred much earlier and ...

As one of the most famous Ancient Egyptian pyramids, the Pyramid of Khafre on the plateau of Giza has been a true wonder of the Ancient World ever since its construction around 2570 BCE. Today, well ...

Many building techniques have been around for centuries, if not millennia. And when it comes to determining which construction technique and what type of materials to use, budgets have played a ...