Even today, vast areas of Antarctica remain unexplored. Despite technological advancements, accessing some regions of the ice-clad landscape is utterly challenging as less than a third of the ...

New geoarchaeological research shows that metalworking in ancient Egypt led to significant contamination in a nearby port. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

How the Egyptian pyramids were built has long been a mystery. Constructed as tombs for the pharaohs over 4,000 years ago, more than 100 of them remain. The largest one, the Great Pyramid of Giza, was ...

A tiny robot, part of the Djedi Project, has offered an unprecedented glimpse into a narrow shaft within the Great Pyramid of Giza. The robot navigate ...

It's been an exceptional week for skywatchers, marked by mysterious sky spirals, the northern lights and, of course, this morning's long-anticipated sunrise solar eclipse. On Monday (March 24), a ...

The barren red deserts of Mars might not be as lifeless as they seem. A growing number of researchers are pointing to strange ...

Hydraulic mechanics may have indeed been the driving force behind the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids. In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, ...