Another tech education tool offers a timeline for how the pyramids were built over a period of roughly 500 years, evolving from simple mud-brick mastabas to elaborate stone structures. The museum ...

The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, ...

Amethyst was fashionable in the Middle Kingdom. Archaeologists discovered jewelry belonging to Middle Kingdom queens and princesses in pyramids at a site called Dahshur around 25 miles south of Cairo.