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, ...

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 ...

An ancient skyscraper considered the seventh wonder of the world crumbled to ruin centuries ago. Now an ambitious ...

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

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.

Malta is home to some of the oldest and arguably most mysterious megalithic structures known to man, older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge.

The real surprise wasn't the Pyramids of Giza, but what lay beyond Cairo.

Andre the Giant was a pro-wrestling superstar. Chuck Wepner floored Muhammad Ali and inspired "Rocky." Together they drew nearly 33,000 fans to New York's Shea Stadium — but was it a real fight or was ...