Mexico is home to some truly amazing archeological sites — here are nine pyramids to plan your next trip around. Leonid Andronov/Getty Images The world is full of ancient wonders — so many that you ...

Imagine the most exotic and ancient site known to humankind-what comes to mind? I'm guessing the pyramids of Egypt made the list. Not only are they the only sites on the lists of both the Ancient and ...

From the glass atrium of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the three great Pyramids of Giza are perfectly framed on the desert horizon. The architects designed it this way; a deliberate alignment connecting ...

Egypt has added upgrades to its historical Great Pyramids of Giza and Great Sphinx tourist sites by opening a new restaurant and unveiling a fleet of electric buses amid the coronavirus pandemic, ...

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 ...

Discoveries about Egypt's pyramids are not over. The most recent one concerns the Pyramid of Menkaure: an international team has just identified two empty spaces behind its eastern face, which ...

The Giza pyramids' alignment with stars is debated; no definitive proof exists. Internal shafts in the Great Pyramid have an unclear purpose, possibly not for stargazing. The pyramids show ...

Ancient Egyptians built the spectacular Giza pyramids in what is now a desert landscape. How they hauled the tons-heavy building blocks to the pyramids has long been a mystery. By tracking ancient ...