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 ...

Restoration on the 4,400-year-old Pyramid of Sahura led researchers to create a more comprehensive blueprint of the structure. Using LiDAR imaging, the team confirmed the presence of previously ...

Archaeologists working in a tunnel beneath Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun have unearthed two caches of artifacts that may have been meant to consecrate the massive building's construction around a.d ...

Egypt has installed for the first time a state-of-the-art air purification system inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, to safeguard its fragile chambers ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt at ...

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Deep inside the Great Pyramid, engineers found sealed voids packed with ultra-pure sand—brought from hundreds of miles away. No one knows why they’re there, but the implications could rewrite what we ...

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The Amazon jungle wasn’t supposed to have been the site of something this big. The mound, known locally as Montegrande, spans more than two acres at its base and stands as tall as a five-story ...