The Great Pyramid, built around 2570 BCE for Pharaoh Khufu, originally had a smooth limestone casing and a pyramidion at its peak. Over millennia, these features eroded, exposing the core stones.

Everyone knows that the Egyptian pyramids are ancient — but exactly how old are they? Historians estimate that they were ...

This is where the jokingly called [History for Granite] channel on YouTube has now pitched some new ideas, involving the casing stones that used to fully cover the Pyramid of Khafre, prior to ...

Much of the stonework in the Giza Pyramids came from a quarry barely half a mile to the south of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. The white limestone that once formed the outer casing had a longer ...

HAWASS: First of all you have inscriptions that are written inside the tombs, the tombs that are located on the west side of the Great Pyramid for the officials, and the tombs that are located on ...

A video apparently showing a worker using a hammer and chisel to chip at the stones of the Great Pyramid of Giza, a Unesco World Heritage site and only remaining Wonder of the Ancient World ...