Researchers led by Tohoku University’s Motoyuki Sato used GPR—along with a method known as electrical resistivity tomography ...

Archaeologists in Mexico discovered a rare 1,400-year-old cube-shaped skull, revealing ancient cranial modification practices ...

Deep beneath the Step Pyramid lies a vast underground network of shafts, galleries, and hidden chambers filled with remarkable stone artifacts. Thousands of finely crafted vessels, massive granite ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 7,000-year-old ostrich egg from a Nubian burial and were stunned to find intricate engravings covering its surface—images that looked strikingly like the Pyramids of Giza, ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...

Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...

Having stood the test of time, some of the oldest man-made structures in the world range from modest huts, megalithic temples and prehistoric pyramids to ancient burial mounds and Aboriginal ...