At nearly 3,000 feet above sea level in the misty highlands of West Java, Indonesia, a series of moss-covered stone terraces ...

The journey begins in Egypt with the Great Pyramid of Giza, the only surviving wonder of the original list. Hughes uncovers hidden chambers and explores the latest engineering theories that reveal how ...

A granite inscription tells us that for seven years during the reign of the ancient Egyptian king Djoser, the Nile failed to go through its annual flooding cycle, causing a devastating drought and ...

Egypt is building two highways across the pyramids plateau outside Cairo, reviving and expanding a project that was suspended in the 1990s after an international outcry.

Centuries ago, the Nile River split into two and inadvertently created an island—fulfilling a piece of ancient Egyptian ...

Pharaohs ruled by predicting the floods of one prominent river. This "aquatic highway" united north and south, fueling ...

Mummies, pyramids, and temples－all trace back to one desert river. In a land of 90 percent desert, how did Egyptians create ...

Amenhotep III's tomb represents one of the largest burial chambers in the Valley of Kings, featuring a 36-meter-long, 14-meter-deep descending passageway that leads to three interconnected chambers.

On Saturday, Egypt opened a pharaoh's tomb after more than two decades of renovation. Some of its contents were robbed in ...

CHICAGO, IL – Rajan Hooda, at the University of Chicago, has unveiled a groundbreaking theory on how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, providing new insights into one of history’s greatest ...

Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects—long since removed from the project—the ambitious Cairo museum was stalled by a coup ...

Architecture is a discipline conceived in three dimensions. The fourth—time—is not often talked about, but its passage can ...