Just a few miles from the iconic pyramids of Giza, a lesser-known necropolis is rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient engineering. In Saqqara, archaeologists believe a nearly 5,000-year-old ...

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Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has given the Pyramid of Tirana a colorful makeover and a future-facing new purpose. The structure was first built in 1988 as a museum honoring Enver Hoxha, the former ...

While the Egyptian pyramids are the most famous, they are not the only ones; in fact, one country has even more. Credit: Greekreporter Archive Pyramids are geometric structures found around the world ...

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 ...

A new study aims to answer the centuries-old question of how the Great Pyramids were built thousands of years ago, and its findings have provided an unexpected possible answer: water. Though deserts ...

Frederick Barthelme’s short stories have to be among the saddest in the English language. A prolific author with a wider range than is usually appreciated, Mr. Barthelme, born in Houston in 1943, is ...

An overlooked trench, a mysterious enclosure, and a theory that rewrites how Egypt’s first pyramid was built. New research hints at a forgotten technology buried beneath Saqqara. For more than a ...

Two Italian scientists claim to have discovered 38,000-year-old structures buried deep beneath the pyramids. But there's a big reason to be skeptical. A pair of researchers has claimed to find ...

The pyramids may have been built using a sophisticated hydraulic system, according to a new study in Egypt. Evidence of ancient Egyptians using water pressure to lift stone blocks was discovered at ...