The mathematics encoded in the Great Pyramid pointed to a level of precision that shouldn’t have existed in the ancient world. Its original height and base, measured in royal cubits, produced the ...

Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...

Mathematicians studying voting systems have uncovered structural flaws that challenge the idea of a perfectly fair democracy.

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo has been heralded as one of the biggest cultural openings of the year. Located near the Pyramids of ...

The story of the highly skilled workers who helped build Egypt’s Great Pyramid is emerging from a papyrus cache unearthed at the world’s oldest harbor ...

Great Pyramid of Giza. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Egyptian authorities arrested three Spanish tourists on Sunday after they allegedly attempted to take nude photographs near the Great ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...