Florida might seem about as far from modern-day Egypt as possible - and just a few thousand years from the end of the sprawling Ancient Egyptian Empire.

Tourists from Herodotus to Rita Hayworth have swarmed around the gigantic base of Pharaoh Cheops’ pyramid, which stands in the desert on the outskirts of modern Cairo. None of them, until this week, ...

From Cheops to Ramses II” is more than an immersive Egyptian travelogue, though it hits all the major tourist destinations.

Sakuji Yoshimura, the director of the Institute of Egyptology, Waseda University, center, leaves the site of Cheops' second solar boat below the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt, Wednesday, March 29, 2017 ...

When the “soul ship” of Pharaoh Cheops was found last year, buried at the foot of his mighty pyramid, the find was announced to the world with the greatest possible hullabaloo. This week, at New ...

HONG KONG (Reuters)- A Hong Kong dentist is wielding forceps to help reach for answers inside the last surviving example of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza. Pulling ...

In part two of this Hidden Planet episode, Inside the Pharoah's Secret Tunnels, Richard Engel journeys into the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

Less than 20 miles south of modern-day Cairo lies the Saqqara plateau, Egypt's oldest pyramid complex. In this installment of Hidden Planet, originally posted on Rock Center's iPad app in January, NBC ...