When we think of the Egyptian pyramids, we of course think of the Giza Plateau, the Great Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khafre and ...

Khafre, Khufu's son, lies entombed in the nearby Pyramid of Khafre. The third structure, the Pyramid of Menkaure, stands as the smallest of the Pyramids of Giza and was constructed by Khafre's ...

The Pyramid of Menkaure way be small in comparison to others, but it’s arguably the most elegant pyramid at Giza, with its granite casing stones, the beautiful panelled chamber, the curved ...

Menkaure, also known as Mycerinus, ruled from 2490 - 2472 B.C.. He was king of the smallest of the three pyramids at Giza, and is believed to be Khufu's grandson.

In 1837, an English army officer named Richard William Howard Vyse used gunpowder and dynamite to blast his way inside the pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the great pyramids of Giza.

No cameras were around thousands of years ago when the ancient Egyptians built the three pyramids of Giza, for each of three pharaohs Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. And so scientists have had to ...

The next generation followed the same pattern: Baufre, son of Redjedef, built his tomb outside of Giza, while Menkaure, Khafre’s son, built his in Giza. Each pharaoh who built in Giza did so in ...

The Giza complex consists of three large pyramids built for the pharaohs Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. The grand structures were built between 2589 BC and 2504 BC. How they were built has been a ...

This famous site outside Cairo includes the Great Sphinx and three main pyramids: the Pyramid of Menkaure, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Great Pyramid of Giza. But the pyramids were built in the ...

The archaeologists have been excavating a city near the Giza Pyramids that dates mainly to the reign of the pharaoh Menkaure, who built the last pyramid at Giza. Also near the pyramids they have ...