WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A team led by UNCW earth and ocean sciences professor Eman Ghoneim has uncovered one of the likely reasons for why the pyramids between Giza and Lisht in Egypt were built ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAIRO (AP) — Egypt on Saturday opened two of ...

Located roughly 62 miles (99km) from Cairo, the Meidum Pyramid was built during the reign of King Sneferu, the first pharaoh of the 4th dynasty (2613 to 2589 BC). The Meidum Pyramid was Egypt’s first ...

Giza Pyramids are located on the Giza Plateau in the Giza Governorate on the west bank of the Nile River. It was built about 25 centuries BC, between 2480 and 2550 BC. It includes three pyramids: ...

Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza is an ancient feat of engineering, with the monument almost perfectly located along the cardinal points — north, south, east and west. Archaeologists have long been ...

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