The Latest Breaking News from Giza

Workers were exposed to surprisingly high levels of heavy metals such as copper and arsenic, which can cause vomiting, diarrhea and nausea

About two dozen passengers, mostly women, were in the vehicle heading to work when the accident occurred

Researchers say they can’t determine material causing the anomaly

The largest field of pyramids in Egypt – consisting of 31 pyramids built over a millennium, including the famous Great Pyramid at Giza – lies along a narrow strip of land in the desert several kilometres west of the Nile River.

The Nile's now-extinct branch likely helped the ancient Egyptians move materials to pyramid building sites.

An enigmatic L-shaped structure found underground near the pyramids at Giza may be an entrance to a mysterious deeper feature below it.

It had planned to restore the cladding which once covered the pyramid of Menkaure

From the Great Pyramid at Giza to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a thrilling journey in the footsteps of the ancients

It's possible that wind erosion made a rock feature in ancient Egypt look something like a sphinx, and then the Egyptians further refined it into the iconic monument.

‘Our results provide a simple origin theory for how Sphinx-like formations can come about from erosion’

An analysis of bracelets owned by ancient Egyptian royalty more than 4,500 years ago has found Egypt and Greece were involved in long-distance trade much earlier than realised.