Mysterious hieroglyphs written in red paint on the floor of a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza are just numbers, according to a mathematical analysis of the 4,500-year-old mausoleum.

The number 1888081808881 is interesting on several counts. First, it’s a prime number, evenly divisible only by itself and 1. In base 10, it’s also a palindromic number. It has the same sequence of ...

When we think of the Egyptian pyramids, we of course think of the Giza Plateau, the Great Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khafre and the pyramid of Menkaure. Many of us will also know about the Bent Pyramid ...