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 ...

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

The debate over the true purpose of Egypt's Great Pyramid has been reignited after a study has suggested it was constructed ...

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: ...

Chronological Mismatch: The pyramids were primarily built during the Old Kingdom (2686-2181 BCE), a period predating the events recounted in the Old Testament by over a thousand years. By the time the ...

(CNN) — For years, Egyptologists have hotly debated how the massive pyramids of ancient Egypt were built more than 4,000 years ago. Now, a team of engineers and geologists brings a new theory to the ...

Video of a dog venturing to the top of one of Egypt's Great Pyramids has gone mega-viral. The dog ventured up to the 448-foot tall Pyramid of Khafre is one of the three Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of ...

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 ...

With the help of satellite archaeology, 260 previously unknown stone funerary monuments, which are older than the first ...