For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the ...

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 ...

For years, Egyptologists have hotly debated how the massive pyramids of ancient Egypt were built more than 4,000 years ago. Now, a team of engineers and geologists brings a new theory to the table — a ...

A 40-mile stretch of a long-gone branch of the Nile may explain why the ancient monuments were built where they were. Children ride a donkey near the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt. Built ...

Fireworks and drone spectacles lit up the Saharan night above a gala of Egyptian elite, heads of state, and foreign ...

How an ancient civilization was able to build such large structures without the assistance of modern technology has baffled the world for generations. And while the popular theory that they were ...

A groundbreaking study suggests the ancient Egyptians may have used hydraulic power before we could have imagined this skill. They did not utilize just ramps and manpower, to build the Step Pyramid of ...

For much of human history, stories about the construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramids were rooted in rumor rather than research. The Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, who famously counted the ...

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 ...

It's been described as the world's largest archaeological museum, and shows the the tomb of former Pharoah Tutankhamun has been displayed in full for the first time.