There are several ancient monuments proving that our predecessors possessed knowledge of astronomy and used it for practical purposes.

A new, non-peer-reviewed report argues that Egypt’s Great Pyramid may be far older than the familiar Old Kingdom timeline, proposing an age in the order of tens of thousands of years. The claim hinges ...

Near the southeastern corner of the Great Pyramid lies a little-known substructure cut directly into the bedrock. Known as the Neben Pyramid, it consists of a descending passage and a small chamber — ...

Some 31 pyramids in Egypt, including the Giza pyramid complex, may originally have been built along a 64-km-long branch of the river Nile which has long since been buried beneath farmland and desert.

Beneath Egypt’s Step Pyramid lies a sprawling network of tunnels, shafts, and chambers carved deep into the bedrock. More than 40,000 stone vessels were discovered here, many showing precision lathe ...

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: ...

One of the defining aspects of the recen tly unveiled $250 million first-phase makeover of San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid complex was the meticulous refurbishing of public spaces around the ...