A recent geological study is reigniting debate around the origins of Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza. Released in late 2025, the report presents a bold claim: the monument’s exposed limestone blocks may ...

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up to 4,800 years ago – right when the first pyramids were being built. The ...

It was a real pyramid scheme. Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking new theory on how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built, ...

A groundbreaking study has put forward a radical new explanation for how the Great Pyramid of Giza was really built. The pyramids' construction has long been the source of wild theories - from slavery ...

For much of human history, stories about the construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramids were rooted in rumor rather than research. The Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, who famously counted the ...

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves between the ancient and the modern. The ancient story chronicles, step-by-step, how a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age could construct ...

The researchers who claimed to have found a vast underground city beneath Egypt’s Great Pyramids doubled down on the wild theory Tuesday by saying they’ve found a second “hidden city.” Italian and ...

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...