Key features of the famous monument defend it from earthquakes – but we can’t know if that’s what the builders had in mind.

Some of the most famous unexplained passages in Egypt may not be unexplained for much longer. By looking again at the Queen’s Chamber, the stepped internal core, and the pyramid’s possible fallback ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The mystery of the missing scientists began with a Silver Alert. In late February, a retired Air Force major ...

The Pyramid of the Moon was the site of a shooting on April 20, 2026, in Teotihuacan, Mexico, on Aug. 1, 2024. Reporter A gunman opened fire Monday at a popular tourist site and important ...

MEXICO CITY — A man fatally shot a ‌Canadian woman and injured several others before killing himself Monday at Mexico’s Teotihuacán ⁠pyramids, a popular tourist and archaeological site outside Mexico ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza. Credit: Douwe C. van der Zee / CC BY-SA 4.0 A new Great Pyramid theory is challenging long-standing ideas about how ancient Egyptians built Khufu’s monument at Giza, ...

Have they finally solved the ancient Egyptians’ pyramid scheme? Aliens might not have built the pyramids — but the ancient Egyptians might’ve had a pretty cool hack nonetheless. A cutting-edge 3D ...

The U.S. government publishes updated dietary guidance every five years—"Dietary Guidelines for Americans.” Often accompanied by a visual representation, like the 1992 food pyramid or the 2011 plate, ...

Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest explosions in the Universe,” says Joseph Farah, an astrophysicist at the ...