Over the past 4,600 years, the Great Pyramid of Giza has weathered a dozen or so major earthquakes. Most recently, the 5.9 magnitude Cairo earthquake of 1992 dislodged some casing stones from the ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has survived more than 4,500 years. Earthquakes have repeatedly shaken the region, including the magnitude 5.8 Cairo earthquake in 1992, which dislodged some of the ...

Field measurements being taken in the passage leading from Caliph al-Ma’mun’s Entrance (also known as the Robbers’ Tunnel). Credit: Asem Salama et al. The Great Pyramid of Khufu has stood for roughly ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Coding geometric patterns is a classic milestone for any programmer. It transitions your mind from thinking in linear ...

At the dawn of the consumer robotics era, National Geographic TV producers plumbed ancient secrets with help from this pioneering rover. National Geographic partnered with the company iRobot to create ...

The Python star pattern challenge is a popular task often assigned to new programming students. To complete the challenge, developers must demonstrate competency with variables, ranges and nested ...

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 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 ...