South of the pyramids lies the Kromer Dump, a crescent-shaped mound of ancient debris first excavated in the 1970s. Some ...

Ancient pyramids are often associated with Egypt. However, the largest pyramid ever built is in Mexico. The Great Pyramid of ...

Work out the math on that timeline, and you come to an unexpected conclusion: that Cleopatra lived closer to us today than ...

For much of human history, stories about the construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramids were rooted in rumor rather than research. The Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, who famously counted the ...

The Pyramids of Giza sit about 11 miles southwest of downtown Cairo on the Giza Plateau. The pyramids are open daily from 7 a ...

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 ...

At the dawn of the consumer robotics era, National Geographic TV producers plumbed ancient secrets with help from this ...