There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...

The Great Pyramid at Giza has been studied for centuries, yet new scans of the 4,500-year-old monument suggest it may still ...

Learn more about the Pyramids of Giza, who they were built for, and the possible methods used to complete them.

Yet, having stood for over 4,500 years, historians and archaeologists are continuing to uncover new details about the pyramids. For almost as long as they have existed, the pyramids in Egypt were ...

The pyramid of Djoser, Third Dynasty, ca. 2630-2611 BCE (photo by Vincent Brown via Flickr) After nearly 14 years of closure and a $6.6 million restoration, Egypt’s oldest standing pyramid is now open ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...