This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History ... to pinpoint the sublime thrill of seeing the Pyramids at Giza in person today. They are so iconic, so ...

At National Geographic, where visual storytelling ... the magazine’s cover showed a camel train in front of the Pyramids at Giza. The image produced by the photographer was horizontal; here ...

When Yukinori Kawae explores the Great Pyramids at Giza, he isn’t after treasure or lost chambers—he’s looking for dimensions. For all that the pyramids have been dug, scanned, and ...

I enjoyed collaborating with National Geographic archaeologists who were doing innovative research around the Giza Plateau. I learned about the workers who built the pyramids, how the pyramids ...

It's curious that we have no books—from Tut at least," says Salima Ikram, a professor of Egyptology at American University in Cairo and a National Geographic grantee. Tombs were also well ...

Researchers have uncovered a now-dried-up branch of the Nile that came right up to the great pyramid complex of Giza about 4,500 ... 2.5 and 15 tons, per National Geographic.