Having ventured alone into the pyramid's forbidding interior and navigated its ... alerted Arab tunnelers to the location of Khufu's passages. The granite plug blocking access to the upper portion ...

Once upon a time and not so very long ago, granite countertops were all the rage. But the fickle design world is being fickle once again. As old-school kitchen trends are elbowing out the newer ...

The pyramid, also known as Khufu Pyramid, was photographed by researchers to create the tour of the three interior chambers ... with 8,000 tons of granite imported from Aswan, more than 800 ...

Some accounts state human remains were present in the King’s Chamber around the 9th century CE, but constant looting has left the interior barren except for Khufu’s red-granite sarcophagus.

The grooves were used to direct slabs of granite towards ... using cosmic rays to map the interior of the pyramid. Cheops Pyramid (Cheops being the greek name for Khufu) is one of the wonders ...

Dr Lehner points to grooves cut into the walls in a room outside the passageway to the King's Chamber that could have held the granite blocks. He said: 'Here Khufu's builders designed a line of ...

And we've heard rumblings that it is officially the end of the reign of granite work surfaces. That's right, the seemingly perennially popular natural stone has slowly but surely been falling out of ...

An Egyptian-German archaeological mission unearthed granite stone blocks dating back to the era of King Khufu (2589 BC-2566 BC) in eastern Cairo, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

The joint Egyptian-German archaeological mission working in Matariya (Heliopolis) succeeded in discovering granite stone blocks from the era of King Khufu in the Temple of the Sun, in addition to the ...