A majestic row of five circular pyramids known as yácatas dominates a promontory overlooking Lake Pátzcuaro in the western Mexican state of Michoacán. Embodying the former might of the Purépecha ...

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 ...

When the country's museum collections fell into the Rapid Support Forces' hands, they became a real weapon in the conflict ...

The massive Great Man-Made River project is a civil engineering marvel in the desert, designed to channel ancient water to an ...

The colossal project is a civil engineering marvel in the desert, devised to channel ancient water to an arid north African ...

Sudan is home to more pyramids than any other country in the world. Built by the Nubian Kingdom of Kush, these monuments ...

What if an artifact predating the pyramids holds their image? This 7000‑year‑old ostrich egg from the Nubian Museum may be rewriting everything we thought we knew about ancient Egypt.

Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers. This surprising discovery was made during a systematic survey of more than ...

Thousands of years after the Pyramids of Giza were built and researchers are still learning new things about them to this day. A recent study has been looking at the Pyramid of Menkaure — the smallest ...

Ground-penetrating radar has helped archeologists identify buried wonders below the surface. Now, a study from Japanese and Egyptian researchers reveals the discovery of an L-shaped structure along ...