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 ...

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 ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...

The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

A new study measuring vibration frequencies throughout the Great Pyramid revealed how it has been able to withstand severe ...

In considering the perfect monuments of the ancient world, the mind instantly takes flight to the sun-baked deserts of Egypt. Our mind’s eye sees the razor-edged precision of geometry on the plateau ...

It won’t come as much of a surprise that many people believe that the pyramids are some of the oldest structures in the world. While this isn’t entirely inaccurate, the reality is that several ...

The Great Pyramid of Khufu was completed between approximately 4,600 and 4,450 years ago. Since then, the 450-foot-tall ...