Ever wonder what secrets lie beneath the stones of ancient ruins? There’s something almost magical about standing where ...

Fresh radar scans on the Giza Plateau have revealed a buried “anomaly” that is forcing Egyptologists to rethink how people ...

From the glass atrium of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the three great Pyramids of Giza are perfectly framed on the desert horizon. The architects designed it this way; a deliberate alignment connecting ...

Researchers from Cairo and Munich uncovered “air-filled voids” beneath Menkaure pyramid’s eastern face, suggesting a long-suspected hidden entrance. Using electrical resistivity tomography, radar, and ...

ABSTRACT: In Cartesian coordinate systems, the angular separation-based star identification algorithms involve much trigon- ometric function computing. That delays the algorithm process. As in a polar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sudden darkness once covered the Nile Delta, leaving onlookers confused and uneasy. Many years later, researchers still wonder how the unsettling eclipse influenced major decisions in ancient Egypt.

There are plenty of wonders of the world to visit during your lifetime, but you only have to travel to the southern point of North America to find incredible historic architecture. Mexico’s Maya and ...

One of National Geographic's writers was hard to pin down for a while. That's because Kristin Romey was in Sudan, scuba diving in a pyramid. We had so many questions for her—especially once she shared ...