Exploring ancient engineering ... The Egyptians changed from mastabas, with flat roofs, to more complex pyramids around 2630 BCE. This change brought new features like sloped sides, making ...

There have been claims that a great civilization predates ancient dynastic Egypt—one that existed some 10,500 years B.C.—and that this civilization was responsible for building the pyramids ...

Two ancient North American ... The arch, also known as the Hole in the Roof and the Toilet Bowl, was 190 million years old. Less than two weeks earlier, a pyramid at the Ihuatzio Archaeological ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

As the narrator explains the Ancient Egyptian beliefs in the Sun God, a reconstruction of a pharaoh and her soldiers is seen in the Egyptian desert. The pyramids were built so the Sun God could be ...