The surface area of a pyramid can be calculated by adding the area of the base to the sum of the areas of the triangular faces. If the base of the pyramid is a regular polygon, each of the ...

A glass sculpture in the shape of a square based pyramid is to be made. The apex will be directly above the centre of the base. Calculate the surface area of the glass. A cone is the general name ...

Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass have been trying to solve the puzzle of where the 20,000 - 30,000 laborers who built the pyramids lived. Once they find the workers' living area, they can learn more ...

In her 1877 book, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, she writes of the hot drive to the edge of the desert, until “the Great Pyramid, in all its unexpected bulk and majesty, towers close above one ...

The discovery of this extinct river branch helps explain the high pyramid density between Giza and Lisht (the site of Middle Kingdom burials), in what is now an inhospitable area of the Saharan ...

NOVA: What evidence do you have that the pyramids and tombs at Giza were from, as you say, no more than 5,000 years ago. HAWASS: First of all you have inscriptions that are written inside the ...

Cairo's most popular attraction, the Pyramids of Giza, draw thousands of visitors every year. As one of the original Seven Wonders of the World, these pyramids have stood the test of time ...

The area is believed to have first been inhabited between 900 and 1200 A.D. A 50-foot-tall, 1,000-year-old pyramid in Mexico’s Ihuatzio Archaeological Zone collapsing under the pressure of ...