Long before the Great Pyramid rose at Giza, Pharaoh Snefru—the father of Khufu—pushed the limits of design in his quest for perfection. From the Bent Pyramid’s flawed angles to the triumph of the Red ...

There’s still much to uncover about Egypt’s pyramids. For example, what lies within the massive void sealed inside the Great Pyramid of Giza 4,500 years ago? And how, exactly, were the building ...

Figure 1: Muon detectors installed for Khufu’s Pyramid. Three techniques of cosmic-ray muon imaging were applied to investigate the inner structure of the pyramid. The known voids (the King’s chamber ...

Each side of the Great Pyramid rises at an angle of 51.5 degrees to the top. Not only that, each of the sides are aligned almost exactly with true north, south, east, and west. For a pyramid to look ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The first stone pyramid ever built has been restored and is now open to the public. The Pyramid of Djoser, also known as the Step Pyramid, a ...

Perhaps you've heard of the inverted pyramid. This elderly news-story construction, which puts the most boring/trivial details at the bottom, is a relic of newspaper writing that needed to be cut ...

Archaeologists have shed new light on the astronomical alignments of a spectacular ancient pyramid in Mexico during investigations conducted at the site of an iconic pre-Hispanic city. And Newsweek ...

A pre-Columbian pyramid at Ihuatzio Archaeological Zone, Michoacán, Mexico, has partially collapsed following downpours around Lake Pátzcuaro, according to Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología ...