Archaeologists have discovered five "puppets"—believed to have been used to perform rituals—atop a pre-Columbian Central ...

On a high, dry terrace overlooking a green river valley in the Andes Mountains of Peru, sits a complex of American pyramids that may be older than the pyramids of Egypt. These structures are ...

Source: New York Times However, when the new FedExForum opened nearby, the basketball teams switched home courts, and the Great American Pyramid went dark. Originally, the Memphis pyramid was used ...

The whole ledge presents the appearance of a solid structure of masonry, reared, like the Egyptian Pyramids, to perpetuate the works and memory of man, in defiance of the flight of ages.

As one of the most famous Ancient Egyptian pyramids, the Pyramid of Khafre on the plateau of Giza has been a true wonder of the Ancient World ever since its construction around 2570 BCE.

Standing at the base of the Great Pyramid, it is hard to imagine that this monument—which remained the tallest building in the world until early in this century—was built in just under 30 years.

These striking puppets suggest that Indigenous people in what is now El Salvador had rituals that were more connected to the ...

By building the pyramids, ancient Egyptians believed they could make certain that, just like the Sun God, their king would be reborn in the afterlife. These are the Pyramid Texts - they are spells ...