The Pyramids of Giza rise from the west bank of the Nile River almost as an act of defiance, perfectly symmetrical behemoths imposed upon a flat, barren landscape. The Great Pyramid—the oldest ...

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Biblical stories of men forcing enslaved people to build grand monuments with the cracks of their whips. Although historians now understand that the pyramids were built by skilled and salaried ...

Roger Anis Twenty miles south of Cairo, on the Nile's west bank, where riverfed crop fields give way to desert, the ancient site of Saqqara is marked by crumbling pyramids that emerge from the ...