Forget what you were told. The pyramids weren’t tombs. Indigenous Egyptian tradition called them Per-Neter — “House of Energy.” They had a separate word for tomb: Per-Ka. And they used it. So why lie?

From the glass atrium of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the three great Pyramids of Giza are perfectly framed on the desert horizon. The architects designed it this way; a deliberate alignment connecting ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

A new study has proposed how the Great Pyramid was built, after baffling archaeologists for decades.