In July 2020, Elon Musk tweeted “Aliens built the pyramids,” clearly in jest. The comment went viral—prompting Egyptologist ...

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

When you look back at ’90s and 2000s sci-fi, it’s amazing how one movie with a giant stone ring changed virtually everything. Stargate began in 1994 as a single big-screen adventure starring Kurt ...

Zahi Hawass recounts his rise in the new documentary The Man With the Hat, gracefully sidestepping the controversies that ...

A new, non-peer-reviewed report argues that Egypt’s Great Pyramid may be far older than the familiar Old Kingdom timeline, proposing an age in the order of tens of thousands of years. The claim hinges ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

In spring 2019, I crossed the Atlantic for the first time to visit Europe. With a Eurail Pass in hand and two weeks, I hoped to visit as many cities ...