King Khufu, who is also known by the greek name "Cheops," was the father of pyramid building at Giza. He ruled from 2589 - 2566 B.C. and was the son of King Sneferu and Queen Hetpeheres.

The project used Synthetic Aperture Radar tomography and involved scientists Corrado Malanga of the University of Pisa and Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, who scanned the ...

The pyramid is located in the Saqqara necropolis, which is on the west bank of the Nile River. The researchers suggest that the hydraulic system involved the flow of water into two shafts inside ...

You are now standing atop Khufu, 449 feet above the plateau. Until early in this century, this pyramid was the tallest building on earth. The wooden surveying tripod at the summit indicates the ...