In this guest article, investigative historian, author and journalist Tony McMahon explores some of the more eccentric ...
While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung ...
A recent archaeological discovery in El Salvador could change the understanding of rituals and performances in Mesoamerica ...
Scientists have discovered an incredible pyramid from a civilisation around ... The ancient Caral civilisation lived between 3500 and 1800 BC in what's now north-central Peru, one the six ...
Dating back to 25,000 BC, Gunung Padang is 22,000 years older than Egypt’s Step Pyramid, rewriting what we know about ancient construction. If humans built it, they must have possessed advanced ...
Little is known about Djoser, but the fact that he was able to build such a massive and innovative structure as the Step Pyramid suggests that during his reign Egypt was politically stable ...
The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and while only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains intact, we’ve ...