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 ...

A researcher claims the Great Pyramids may predate ancient Egypt and could be the work of a lost civilization with advanced engineering.

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 ...

Ancient Egyptian tombs had a name: Per-Ka. Temples had a name: Per-Ba. But pyramids were called something else — Per-Neter — often translated as “House of Energy” or “House of Nature.” Why would a ...

A "long-lost" branch of the Nile in Egypt may explain the location of several ancient pyramids, researchers have suggested. In a study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, an ...

The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

New research has led scientists to believe that Egypt’s ancient pyramids were built along a long-lost branch of the River Nile. The team from the University of North Carolina Wilmington has claimed ...

How ancient builders raised the mighty pyramids still captures the curiosity of historians and scientists. Despite decades of digging, high-tech scanning, and countless theories, the puzzle remains: ...

The Great Pyramid at Giza has been studied for centuries, yet new scans of the 4,500-year-old monument suggest it may still be hiding a concealed passageway that functions like a secret doorway. Fresh ...

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 & ...