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 ...

What did the ancient Greeks and Egyptians call the pyramids, and what did these ancient words originally mean?

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 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 ...

How ancient builders raised the mighty pyramids still captures the curiosity of historians and scientists. Despite decades of digging, high-tech scanning, and countless theories, the puzzle remains: ...

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 pre-Columbian pyramid at Ihuatzio Archaeological Zone, Michoacán, Mexico, has partially collapsed following downpours around Lake Pátzcuaro, according to Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología ...

It's unclear if residents living in the shadows of the Giza pyramids suffered health effects, but the finding offers a glimpse into how they lived. Reading time 3 minutes The construction of Egypt’s ...