Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure built their massive tombs to last. For more than 4,000 years, the Pyramids of Giza ...

Gunung Padang, a megalith in West Java, Indonesia, is a striking sight, a lush hill dotted with a collection of sharp, ...

Archaeologists in Egypt just cracked open two ancient tombs that nobody’s seen in millennia, and what they found inside could ...

The discovery adds new detail to an old burial practice. It shows how grave design changed as Egyptian society became more ...

From the glass atrium of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the three great Pyramids of Giza are perfectly framed on the desert horizon. The architects designed it this way; a deliberate alignment connecting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A study suggests the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to ...

More than 4,000 years after their construction, the pyramids at Giza in Egypt remain among the most recognizable ancient landscapes. When the Greek historian Herodotus wrote about their grandeur ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Khufu pyramid, is among the most famous wonders of the ancient world. It is also a ...

An Aramaic inscription found at Zerzevan Castle documents the closure of a Mithras temple. This ancient text provides rare ...

A new study suggests the answer to one of history’s greatest engineering mysteries may have been hidden inside the Great Pyramid of Giza all along.