The Pyramids of Giza, seen here with the Milky Way in the background, are not Egypt's oldest pyramids. Pyramids are iconic symbols of the ancient pharaohs' power and technological prowess that still ...

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 ...

While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...

“No Jews built the pyramids because Jews didn’t exist at the period when the pyramids were built,” Mazar said. Dorothy Resig, an editor of Biblical Archaeology Review in Washington, D.C., said the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have found new evidence to support the theory that builders transported materials on a now-dried-up branch of the Nile. The three main pyramids at Giza, Egypt, together with subsidiary ...

The construction of Egypt’s iconic pyramids has mystified scholars for centuries. The Great Pyramid of Giza, the tallest and ...

Ancient Aliens on History tonight looks at evidence which, though it appears to prove the planet may have extraterrestrial origins, is dismissed by the academic community. The episode explores a ...