Egypt opened to visitors on Saturday the "Bent" Pyramid built for pharaoh Sneferu, a 101-metre structure just south of Cairo that marks a key step in the evolution of pyramid construction. Tourists ...

2008 “Memphis and its Necropolis – The Pyramid Fields” Overlayed on ESA 1:2,500 Cadastral Map”. In colour. Scale by calculation ~ 1:14,300 A3. Shows boundary of component 86-001. Clarification / ...

Egypt on Saturday opened two of its oldest pyramids, located about 25 miles south of the capital Cairo, to visitors for the first time since 1965. Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany told reporters ...

Snefru built two pyramids at Dahshur. His first was designed from the start as a true pyramid. But the 54 degrees angle proved too steep, and as the pyramid was being built on soft, silty clay, there ...

On Saturday, Egyptian antiquities minister Khaled el-Anany revealed a selection of newly discovered mummies, tools, coffins and wooden masks found during excavations of a royal necropolis. The ...