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 ...

Archaeologists in Wisconsin have unveiled a vessel-based, e-bike-like system dating back thousands of years at a local lake.

Archaeologists discovered 16 ancient dugout canoes in Lake Mendota, Wisconsin, with the oldest dating back 5,200 years. 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 history of the Grateful Dead is filled with outrageously wild tales...but perhaps the most fantastic of all happened on this day 47 years ago, when the iconic band played the Great Pyramid of Giza ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking study suggests the ancient Egyptians may have used hydraulic power before we could have imagined this skill. They did not utilize just ramps and manpower, to build the Step Pyramid of ...

King Snefru's son went on to build the Great Pyramid at Giza. For the second time in less than two weeks, Egypt government officials on Saturday opened a new pyramid to the public, welcoming visitors ...

This year, archaeologists have discovered quite a few old relics. They have discovered 2,200-year-old pyramids in Egypt and also Mayan cities in a Guatemalan jungle. Now, they have discovered more ...