Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of ... 2nd Century A.D. Building methods change. The Meroë pyramids are faced with brick instead of stone ...

Today, Giza is a suburb of rapidly growing Cairo, the largest city ... building of his tomb at Giza. Some Egyptologists believe it took 10 years just to build the ramp that leads from the Nile ...

In rural Egypt, where the Nile’s fertile banks meet the desert’s edge, mudbrick houses, some standing for centuries, remain ...