The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s grave ...

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

And these at Giza would be some of the earliest pyramid towns. A palace of the Old Kingdom pyramid age has never been found in Egypt. We do have palaces from the late middle kingdom, possibly ...

That's the gang name. And in the Old Kingdom in the time of the Pyramids of Giza, the gangs were named after kings. So for example, we have a name, compounded with the name of Menkaure ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

Archaeologists have found a 2,200-year-old Greek pyramid-shaped structure near the Dead Sea, believed to be a former desert ...

Researchers have located laborers beneath a pyramid in Tombos, Sudan, revealing burial was more inclusive in ancient Egypt ...

Giza pyramids 19th-century engraving (left), Château ... that a pair of limestone and granite stone heads from the Old Kingdom might be portraits of Khufu—a theory contested by other historians.

Journey back four and a half thousand years to Egypt's Old Kingdom, to the Pyramid Age. As the vizier, or head of state, you are about to undertake the building of the king's pyramid.

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 ...

As part of the Sky History programme Bradley Walsh: Egypt’s Cosmic Code, he travelled to the country after hearing “this ...