Egyptian archaeologists discovered a new set of tombs belonging to the workers who built the great pyramids. The most important new tomb discovered belonged to a man named Idu and the statement described it as rectangular in structure, with a plaster covered mud brick outside casing.The tomb also featured burial shafts encased in white limestone. Further grave sites were found around the main tomb, including burial shafts containing skeletons and clay pots.

Zahi Hawass has revealed that an excavation team under his charge are investigating an ancient tomb at the centre of claims regarding the alleged discovery of a cave underworld beneath the Pyramids of Giza. In August British writer and explorer Andrew Collins announced that he had rediscovered the entrance to a previously unexplored cave system, entered via a tomb several hundred meters west of the Great Pyramid.

A group of Egyptian researchers claims to have determined the exact date for the construction of Khufu's pyramid. The team, led by Dr. Abdel-Halim Nureddin, says work on the pyramid was started on 23 August, 2470 BC. Nureddin said the team had proved the date using "historical facts and astronomical calculations."

Egypt’s Supreme Council for Antiquities is looking to protect the Giza pyramids by transforming the area’s largely unregulated industry of camel drivers, docents, and peddlers into a carefully controlled tourism complex by October, according to officials. Hawass sketched his vision: a $35 million complex with tourists - in buses and cars, on camels and horses - expected to arrive at a visitors center. From there, they would buy a ticket and take an electric tram to the pyramids and the adjoining Great Sphinx.

A statue, almost life-size at 149cm (five feet) tall, was found by maintenance workers north of the smallest of Giza's three main pyramids, the tomb of the fourth dynasty Pharaoh Mycerinus. The ancient quartzite statue of a seated man was discovered buried close to the surface of the desert.

Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni toured on Sunday 19/10/2008 the second phase of the Pyramids plateau development project. He was accompanied by Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawwas. The second stage of the Ministry of Culture's project involves lighting works, road and sidewalk paving, the development of the Sphinx area and the construction of offices for employees.

Short video about the second solar boat of Khufu.

Experts will begin removing around 600 pieces of timber in November, said professor Sakuji Yoshimura of Japan's Waseda University, who is helping lead the restoration effort with the antiquities council. Conserving the wood and reassembling the craft could take a decade, Hawass said. Work on the first boat, by comparison, took 25 years, in part because there was little information on Egyptian boat building other than carvings and small models found in tombs.

Zahi Hawas, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said that a huge screen will be put in the solar boat museum, which is on the southern side of the great pyramid. The screen will show the boat which lies 10 metres below the surface. Archaeologists covered the boat again so that it would not be damaged. Hawas said that SCA, in cooperation with Japanese Egyptologist Sakuji Yoshimura from the University of Waseda in Japan will place the camera inside the boat. Tourists will be able to see the boat starting next Saturday without the pit having to be uncovered again.

More than 4,500 years after the Ancient Egyptians built the marvels at Giza, a new museum is taking shape that when finished will be bigger than the Louvre in France. That new structure is the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), which, when complete, will be the biggest museum of Egyptology in the world, and (it’s claimed) the largest archaeo-logical museum of any sort.