The Great Pyramid of Giza stood as the tallest structure on Earth for nearly 4,000 years—and we still don’t know exactly how it was built. With 2.3 million stone blocks, some weighing up to 50 tons, ...

In a BBC archive clip, archaeologist Howard Carter describes the moment on 12 February 1924 when he and his team became the first people in 3,300 years to meet the Egyptian boy king.

Deep beneath the Great Pyramid lie narrow, mysterious shafts that have puzzled researchers for decades. What were they built for—and what secrets might they still hold? Explore the hidden engineering ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...