In ancient Egypt, what was the Sphinx all about? – Effie, age 8, New Plymouth, New Zealand. One of the most mysterious and ...

This is a tool that the Ancient Egyptians used. See the way it's a bit broken? Well, that's because it's very old. We call this kind of object an artefact. An artefact gives us a little window into ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature proposes how Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed using an internal counterweight and pulley system ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...