Just before the King’s Chamber lies a narrow, granite-lined room often called the Antechamber. But this wasn’t just a passage. It was a security system. Once fitted with three massive granite ...

The Great Pyramid has always invited audacious explanations, from alien architects to supernatural levitation. Now a cluster ...

In ancient Egypt, what was the Sphinx all about? – Effie, age 8, New Plymouth, New Zealand. One of the most mysterious and ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

Zahi Hawass recounts his rise in the new documentary The Man With the Hat, gracefully sidestepping the controversies that ...

Seven cheetah mummies recently discovered in an Arabian desert cave have renewed discussion about reintroduction of the animals.

Ed Smart appeared in Netflix's 2026 documentary 'Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart' Evan Agostini/Getty Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Utah home on June 5, 2002, by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda ...