Each block, quarried during the Ptolemaic Period of Ancient Egypt, is larger than the famous Stone of the Pregnant Woman at Baalbek and estimates say that each weighs between 2,000 and 3,000 tons.

There is perhaps no institution on Earth whose opening has been as wildly anticipated as the Grand Egyptian Museum outside ...

An excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site in Egypt revealed sophisticated military fortifications from the Ptolemaic and Roman ...

A stone head that spent decades gathering dust on a wall has proved to be an Egyptian statue from an ancient tomb. The statue ...

Archaeologists have uncovered vestiges of the ancient past in Sinai. A 2,000-year-old limestone road revealed an even older ...

The largest Egyptian pyramid ever built was Pharaoh Khufu’s Great Pyramid of Giza. It is the tallest pyramid that you can see in this picture. It is made from over two million stone blocks.

The collection includes sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut.

The pyramids of Egypt fascinated travellers and conquerors in ancient times ... At Medum, a step pyramid was built, then filled in with stone, and covered with a limestone casing. Nearby at Bahshur, ...