For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...

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A majestic row of five circular pyramids known as yácatas dominates a promontory overlooking Lake Pátzcuaro in the western Mexican state of Michoacán. Embodying the former might of the Purépecha ...

Egypt has installed for the first time a state-of-the-art air purification system inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, to safeguard its fragile chambers ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt at ...

Ravens kicker Tyler Loop walked off the field with his helmet still on and his head down, the noise around him fading into the background as the reality of the moment set in. The rookie had just lived ...

Fresh radar scans on the Giza Plateau have revealed a buried “anomaly” that is forcing Egyptologists to rethink how people once entered the pyramids. The subsurface structure, detected near the tombs ...

The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast ...