History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

The Pyramids of Giza might only be the tip of the iceberg. Italian researchers claim they might’ve found signs of a Sphinx ...

The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have been just for the rich, according to burials found at the archaeological site of Tombos in Sudan. "Our findings suggest that pyramid tombs, once ...

See how Egyptian engineers might have used water to shape history’s greatest monuments.

Claims that a second, massive Sphinx statue lies buried beneath the sands of Egypt’s Giza Plateau have gone viral, drawing ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

The Pyramid of Unas may appear smaller than the pyramids of Giza, but it holds a major place in ancient Egyptian history.

Hydraulic mechanics may have indeed been the driving force behind the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids. In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, ...