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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

The US has unveiled a controversial new food pyramid that’s causing a stir among nutrition experts. It represents the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans – advice on what types and quantities of ...

Kennedy, during a press briefing at the White House, remarked on the look of the inverted food pyramid and claimed that the model "was actually upside-down before and we just righted it." Buzz: ...