One TikTok account posted a video of a theory surrounding the way the pyramids were built and suggested they were unbuilt. But is it true or even plausible? TikTok is home to many anonymous accounts ...

“I have seen the lofty walls of Babylon and the Zeus statue by the Alpheios River. The Hanging Gardens and the colossus of the sun god Helios. Though I have seen the grandeur of the pyramids, too vast ...

Egyptologist Professor Laurel Bestock rejoins WIRED to break down five discoveries that tell us exactly how the Egyptian pyramids were built; from the Giza quarry to The Diary of Merer, Laurel paints ...

Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza has resisted earthquake damage for nearly 5,000 years, and scientists finally know why. The pyramid tends to vibrate at a different frequency compared with the ...

Two 5,000-year-old tombs recently unearthed at Jabal al-Tayr, Egypt, resemble the royal tomb of King Hor-Den at Abydos. The tombs’ construction suggests their builders understood structural ...

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 ...

In the world of archeology, few tools have revolutionized the field as much as ground-penetrating radar (GPR). This geophysical technique uses radar pulses to image the subsurface. Similar techniques ...

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The Great Pyramid has been called a tomb, a wonder of engineering, and the subject of countless conspiracy theories. Now, it is being called a potential extraterrestrial communication device. A new ...

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 ...