One of these involves the location of the famous pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid, Khufu. Despite knowing where his tomb is (his tomb is the Great Pyramid itself), no one has ever been able to ...

Khufu's ambition led to the construction of Egypt's most famous monument, the 481-foot-tall, 756-foot-wide Great Pyramid of Giza. Khufu's striving did not end there.

The museum was built and inaugurated at the site in 1982 on the location where the first Khufu boat was discovered in 1954 at the southern side of the Great Pyramid.

A satellite Pyramid of Khufu was found at the southeast corner of the Great Pyramid in Giza in the early 1990s. It had not been expected to find a pyramid in that location because the site had ...

The Great Pyramid: Built for the Pharaoh Khufu in about 2570 B.C., sole survivor of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, and arguably the most mysterious structure on the planet Wikicommons ...

The construction of the Great Pyramid 4,500 years ago by Khufu, a ruler also known as Cheops, has long befuddled scientists as to how its 3 million stone blocks weighing 2.5 tons each were lifted ...

A cutaway view of the Pyramid of Khufu shows the location of the “Big Void” as well as a corridor close to the pyramid’s north face. Click on the image for a larger view.

An artist’s reconstruction of the now defunct Khufu branch of the Nile River, which once enabled transportation of construction materials to the Giza Pyramid complex. Alex Boersma/PNAS ...