New research offers compelling evidence that "ancient Egyptian architects possessed profound geotechnical understanding" ...

Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, was not constructed by humans but rather formed naturally. This claim, based ...

Thirty-one different Egyptian pyramids appear to have been built along a branch of the Nile River that dried up millennia ago, according to new research published today in Communications Earth & ...

Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile river that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the ...

New research has led scientists to believe that Egypt’s ancient pyramids were built along a long-lost branch of the River Nile. The team from the University of North Carolina Wilmington has claimed ...

Over thousands of years, human construction has evolved from primitive mud shelters to trillion-dollar megastructures ...

The pyramid tombs of Egypt’s ancient rulers are amongst the most magnificent man-made structures to have survived through antiquity, into the modern-era. They have succeeded in capturing the curiosity ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza has survived for more than 4,600 years despite nearby earthquakes, and new research reveals why.

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 ...

Eman Ghoneim and her team studied the remains of an ancient branch of the Nile near the pyramids of Giza. Eman Ghoneim / University of North Carolina Wilmington Today’s travelers to Egypt will find ...