During Egypt’s pyramid age, a well-connected man named Wahtye died and was laid to rest in the vast royal cemetery that now occupies the desert west of modern Cairo. His colorfully decorated tomb, ...

Chichén Itzá, Mexico — At the spring and fall equinoxes, the setting sun casts serpent-like shadows along the northern stairs of El Castillo, or “the castle.” Built more than a thousand years ago by ...

The story of the highly skilled workers who helped build Egypt’s Great Pyramid is emerging from a papyrus cache unearthed at the world’s oldest harbor On a summer afternoon around 4,600 years ago, ...

A team of researchers has teamed up with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities for a project called "Scan Pyramids" which will use methods such as infrared thermography to scan and map the pyramids of ...

The river was helpful for growing food in a hot place, as well as crops that made clothes and paper. It was located along the River Nile in north-east Africa. I better write this down! Oh! I’ve lost ...