Standing at the base of the Great Pyramid, it is hard to imagine that this monument—which remained the tallest building in the world until early in this century—was built in just under 30 years.

In her 1877 book, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, she writes of the hot drive to the edge of the desert, until “the Great Pyramid, in all its unexpected bulk and majesty, towers close above one ...

By building the pyramids, ancient Egyptians believed they could make certain that, just like the Sun God, their king would be reborn in the afterlife. These are the Pyramid Texts - they are spells ...

MIRANDA KRESTOVNIKOFF: How and why did the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids? These two questions puzzled generations of people who came across these gigantic, mysterious structures in the ...