A plan to cover a Giza pyramid with granite cladding has been called “absurd” after its proponents promised it would deliver “a gift from Egypt to the world”. The project aims to restore the Pyramid ...

Cosmic rays, born from distant exploding stars, produce muons that shower Earth and penetrate stone like ghosts. These ...

Every BlackBerry smartphone user knows the game Brick Breaker. New to the BlackBerry PlayBook is Blocks of Pyramid 2 which is the same concept but just 1000 times better. As you would expect you ...

The Menkaure Pyramid Review Committee (MPRC) has unanimously rejected a plan to restore the granite casing blocks scattered around the base of the smallest of three Pyramids of Giza for thousands of ...

An Egyptian renovation that will see a pyramid clad in granite blocks has been likened to 'straightening the Tower of Pisa' by experts. Work at Egypt's Menkaure pyramid at Giza shown in a video of the ...

The pyramids of Egypt were constructed using millions and millions of large, granite and limestone blocks, some of which weighed between 25 and 80 tons. Reuters There are an estimated 2.3 million ...

Located on the Giza Plateau, the magnificent structure is believed to have been constructed roughly 4,500 years ago for the Pharaoh Khufu. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it is the only ...