The Western Cemetery holds hundreds of rectangular tombs called mastabas that line the base of Giza's Great Pyramid. These ...

The Hereford Bull overlooking I-35 has been largely cut off from his cattle industry legacy, 70 years after he was dedicated ...

Ancient Egyptians built the Step Pyramid for Pharaoh Djoser in the ... The water also would have flowed into the Gisr el-Mudir — a rectangular limestone structure that is a massive 650 by ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - You don't need to travel to Egypt to see the great pyramids. You only need to take a drive to Santa Cruz. Dozens of volunteers helped artist Jim Denevan and his son ...

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 gallery is not perfectly rectangular—the ceiling narrows to a corbelled (roughly triangular-shaped) roof. From the bottom of the gallery you may also choose to go into the Queen's Chamber ...

The most common pyramids are square-based, rectangular-based and triangular-based pyramids. The surface area of a pyramid can be calculated by adding the area of the base to the sum of the areas ...

But there are pyramids. This was a particularly tall ... Chaak offering is set up in his small part of the Maya universe. A rectangular altar, or offering table, about three feet wide and made ...

A hexagon has six sides. A hexagonal prism has six rectangular faces and two hexagonal faces, that is a total of eight faces. Image caption, A pyramid is made up of a polygonal base face and ...

The population pyramid displays the population composition in the Netherlands per year. For each age, the number of men is shown on the left and the number of women on the right. The pyramid contains ...

The stones covered a rectangular, rock-cut pit ... in the so-called Solar Boat Museum next to the Great Pyramid. The 144-foot-long vessel is known variously as the Khufu boat, the solar barque ...