Egypt has opened to visitors the Bent Pyramid near Cairo, in a move that is part of a wider push to boost tourism. The Bent Pyramid at Dahshur was built for pharaoh Snefru about 2,600BC ...

Few cultures have left behind as many fascinating treasures and monuments as Ancient Egypt: the Great Pyramid and Sphinx, the Valley of the Kings, the gold mask of Tutankhamun and the Rosetta ...

And you have to make sure the incline - the pyramid's slope - stays the same all the way up. If you don't, this is what happens… This is the Bent Pyramid. It's called that because its incline ...

The Egyptians had to be very precise when building the pyramids to get them to the shape they are. The ‘bent pyramid’ in Egypt gets its name because the incline changes part way up.