See how Egyptian engineers might have used water to shape history’s greatest monuments.

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 ...

Claims that a second, massive Sphinx statue lies buried beneath the sands of Egypt’s Giza Plateau have gone viral, drawing ...

The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have been just for the rich, according to burials found at the archaeological site of Tombos in Sudan. "Our findings suggest that pyramid tombs, once ...

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 & ...

A view of the Pyramids of Giza was totally obscured from view on Thursday, April 2, as a dust storm swept across northern ...

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 ...

Biondi notes that the first Sphinx sits in a shallow depression, making it plausible that a twin could be hidden beneath this ...

Hydraulic mechanics may have indeed been the driving force behind the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids. In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, ...