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 ...

Cosmic rays, born from distant exploding stars, produce muons that shower Earth and penetrate stone like ghosts. These ...

Lucina Melesio explores how physicists are mapping the internal structures of ancient pyramids in Mexico and Central America using muons – potentially revealing hidden chambers that could finally lead ...

Recent scans of the Pyramid of Menkaure on the Giza Plateau have revealed something remarkable: two previously unknown cavities. Researchers with the ScanPyramids project used non-destructive methods ...

Researchers explore a tunnel in Teotihuacan last accessed 1,800 years ago. April 28, 2013— -- Mexican archeologists discovered three previously unknown chambers under a pyramid in Teotihuacan, an ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Pyramid of Menkaure, one of the three famous ...

The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves between the ancient and the modern. The ancient story chronicles, step-by-step, how a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age could construct ...

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...