Amid Sudan’s war, the pyramids of Meroe sit in near silence as a lone caretaker and small team struggle to protect the ...

MEROË, Sudan — Mostafa Ahmed Mostafa is the heir to a long line of groundskeepers who have guarded Sudan’s ancient pyramids of Meroe. Now, three years into the war between the army and paramilitary ...

Storage rooms aren’t always the most enthralling places to discover or investigate. But when those storage rooms are 4,400 years old and were previously a complete mystery, things get a little more ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

I have seen the lofty Babylonian walls, the Zeus statue by the Alpheus River, the Hanging Gardens, the Colossus of the Sun ...

Hydraulic mechanics may have indeed been the driving force behind the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids. In a 2024 paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt ...