Even with drone footage available, it was necessary to get a zoomed-in look on the casing stones that remain on the pyramid of Khafre near its top at well over 100 meters.

Many of the pyramids at the time were encased in an outer layer of limestone known as casing stones. One casing stone from the Pyramid of Khufu, which weighs more than 650 pounds, is on display at ...

The National Museum of Scotland is set to display the casing stone from the Great Pyramid of Giza for the first time since obtaining it in 1872. But Egypt says it may have been illegally smuggled.

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 ...

Multinuclear NMR evidence, nuclear magnetic resonance experiments show the casing stones of Senefru’s Bent Pyramid to be a combination of limestone grains from one quarry cemented with a calcium ...

Few casing stones survive on the Great Pyramid itself. In 1303 AD, a huge earthquake loosened some of the stones, many of which were taken to use for buildings elsewhere.

The Great Pyramid was originally covered in casing stones, though just a few survive today (and are shown here). (Image credit: Mark Lehner) When the Great Pyramid was first constructed, it was ...

Few casing stones survive on the Great Pyramid itself. In 1303 AD, a huge earthquake loosened some of the stones, many of which were taken to use for buildings elsewhere.

The stone is the only casing stone from the Great Pyramid of Giza to be displayed outside Egypt The only casing stone from the Great Pyramid of Giza to be displayed anywhere outside Egypt is to go ...