Archaeologists discovered a 2,200-year-old pyramid structure in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea that featured stones weighing hundreds of pounds each. Early returns from excavations have already ...

The latest breakthrough in pyramid research did not begin in the desert but in orbit, where radar images from space have traced a lost branch of the Nile that once flowed beside Egypt’s most famous ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza stood as the tallest structure on Earth for nearly 4,000 years—and we still don’t know exactly how it was built. With 2.3 million stone blocks, some weighing up to 50 tons, ...

Some of its Texas limestone blocks contain fossil imprints.

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A preliminary study, which utilizes erosion patterns, suggests that the age of the Great Pyramid is far older than previously ...

Looking at erosion on the pyramid, the study suggests that it may have been built around 22,916 BCE. But you shouldn't ...