A group of archaeologists recently made a surprising discovery in a pyramid that has been buried underground for almost 4,000 ...

In November 2024, a troubling video from the Great Pyramid of Giza surfaced online. The video, showing construction workers ...

More than 2,300,000 limestone and granite blocks were pushed, pulled, and dragged into place on the Great Pyramid. The average weight of a block is about 2.3 metric tons (2.5 tons). How much is that?

And then you could come up with very conservative estimates as to the number of men it would take to pull an average size block the distance from the quarry, which we know, to the pyramid.

In this guest article, investigative historian, author and journalist Tony McMahon explores some of the more eccentric ...

Scribes set about calculating the number of blocks that would be required to build a pyramid with the selected gradient—in the case of Khufu, the angle of the sides with the ground is 52 degrees ...

Walsh pointed out uncanny mathematical alignments in the pyramid: its height multiplied ... With 70-ton boulders among its 2 million blocks, Walsh claimed it’s “impossible” for Egyptians ...

You're Dead To Me host Greg Jenner is joined by Prof Sarah Parcak and comedian Maria Shehata to learn all about the magnificent Egyptian pyramids. We discover how and why pyramids were built, who ...

Once the base was laid out, they could begin building. The Great Pyramid is made up from more than 200 horizontal layers of limestone blocks. The area of each layer is slightly less than the one ...