Fears of an impending apocalypse are circulating following the sudden collapse of an ancient pyramid. The stone monument, which has stood proud in the Mexican state of Michoacàn for some 1,100 years, ...

As one of the most famous Ancient Egyptian pyramids, the Pyramid of Khafre on the plateau of Giza has been a true wonder of the Ancient World ever since its construction around 2570 BCE. Today, well ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have shed new light on the astronomical alignments of a ...

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 ...

The Egyptians working on the pyramids are helping create a culture that will last more than 3,000 years—it will be one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years, Egyptologists have hotly debated how the massive pyramids of ancient Egypt were built more than 4,000 years ago. Now, a ...

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 ...

Newton, the man of universal gravitation, diligently calculated the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Giza.His goal was to determine the length of the 'ruler' used by the ancient Egyptians.What units ...

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 ...

Egyptologists often talk about pyramids as "complexes," especially at Giza. How do the Pyramids integrate with the Sphinx and ...