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: ...

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 ...

South of the pyramids lies the Kromer Dump, a crescent-shaped mound of ancient debris first excavated in the 1970s. Some ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Finding out what actually happened in the deep past can be a slog, so when ancient history is packaged as mystery—spine-tingling but solvable—it’s hard to resist. Who doesn’t want to know how a lost ...

Amid Sudan’s war, the pyramids of Meroe sit in near silence as a lone caretaker and small team struggle to protect the ...

If you’re after must-see sights, the monuments of ancient civilisations are right at the top. And it’s not just because their temples, tombs, cities and citadels are superlative feats of archaeology — ...

MEROË, Sudan — Mostafa Ahmed Mostafa is the heir to a long line of groundskeepers who have guarded Sudan’s ancient pyramids of Meroe. Now, three years into the war between the army and paramilitary ...