Torrential rainfall following a long period of drought caused part of a 1,100-year-old pyramid to collapse in Mexico over the summer, and members of one tribe see it as a warning. As ScienceAlert ...

The stone is the only casing stone from the Great Pyramid of Giza to be displayed outside Egypt The only casing stone from the Great Pyramid of Giza to be displayed anywhere outside Egypt is to go ...

The first stone pyramid ever built has been restored and is now open to the public. The Pyramid of Djoser, also known as the Step Pyramid, a UNESCO world heritage site, was reopened on March 5 ...

Journey back four and a half thousand years to Egypt's Old Kingdom, to the Pyramid Age. As the vizier, or head of state, you are about to undertake the building of the king's pyramid.

In the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Shao Hao was said to be the chief of the Dongyi ethnic group, had his tomb built of stone blocks in a pyramid shape resembling the Egyptian pyramids in present-day ...

NOVA: What evidence do you have that the pyramids and tombs at Giza were from, as you say, no more than 5,000 years ago. HAWASS: First of all you have inscriptions that are written inside the ...

On average, the over two million blocks of stone used to build Khufu's pyramid weigh 2.5 tons, and the heaviest blocks, used as the ceiling of Khufu's burial chamber, weigh in at an estimated nine ...

Uxmal is one of five sites on the Ruta Puuc, all with buildings in the same beautiful “Puuc” carved stone esthetic. This ...

A surveyor working on the pyramid would place the two ends of the wooden set square on a surface and if the weight of the stone, on the plumb line, pulled it down exactly between the two ends of ...

North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson (Kenan Thompson) competed on The $100,000 Pyramid against Saturday Night Live host Jean Smart, with the actress playing a woman married to a ...