The Old Kingdom king Djedkare Isesi left Abusir and built his Pyramid Complex at South Saqqara. His pyramid is built in steps ...

The location was undoubtedly chosen due to its clear visual link to the capital at Inebu-Hedj with its temple of Ptah, one of the most important deities in Old Kingdom period, and the position between ...

The Old Kingdom had the great pyramids, and the New Kingdom had its colossal temples. What did the Middle Kingdom have?

That's the gang name. And in the Old Kingdom in the time of the Pyramids of Giza, the gangs were named after kings. So for example, we have a name, compounded with the name of Menkaure ...

And these at Giza would be some of the earliest pyramid towns. A palace of the Old Kingdom pyramid age has never been found in Egypt. We do have palaces from the late middle kingdom, possibly ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

Journey back four and a half thousand years to Egypt's Old Kingdom, to the Pyramid Age. As the vizier, or head of state, you are about to undertake the building of the king's pyramid.

The pyramid of the Old Kingdom pharaoh Neferirkare is the tallest in the necropolis of Abusir, where most of the kings of Egypt’s 5th Dynasty were buried. Next to Neferirkare’s monument are ...

The Pyramids of Giza represent one of the most enduring symbols of human ingenuity and architectural prowess. For centuries, ...

This is a tool that the Ancient Egyptians used. See the way it's a bit broken? Well, that's because it's very old. We call this kind of object an artefact. An artefact gives us a little window ...

Giza pyramids 19th-century engraving (left), Château ... that a pair of limestone and granite stone heads from the Old Kingdom might be portraits of Khufu—a theory contested by other historians.