Dr. Zahi Hawass says builders were not slaves; they wouldn't have been buried 'in the shadow of the pyramids'.

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...

How did the Ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid of Giza? It was a long process of trial and error, and some amazing ...

Cerro El Cono, a unique mountain, stands tall in Peru's Amazon. Its shape resembles a pyramid. Locals believe it is a sacred ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...