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Beneath the heart of Mexico City, a group of archaeologists has unearthed a terrifying tower. It is no ordinary tower, but one made of human skulls. It’s called the Tzompantli,…
The exact number of pyramids in Egypt remains a debatable number. However, experts will probably agree that there are around 120 confirmed pyramids. Not all of them remain standing today,…
Of all the pyramids on Earth–there are thousands of them scattered across the globe–none is as famous as the Great Pyramid of Giza. The pyramid does not get its fame…
Of all the ancient Egyptian Pyramids— there are about 120—those located at Giza are the rock stars of the ancient world. The three pyramids at Giza—Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure—symbolize the…
No other ancient monument on the planet’s surface has the ability to leave one breathless as the Great Pyramid of Giza. For some people, it is the size of the…
Known also as the False or Rhomboidal Pyramid, the Bent Pyramid of Egypt is a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian engineering, one that clearly marks an important time in pyramid building…
Whenever the word Pyramid is mentioned, that of Khufu–the Great Pyramid of Giza–springs immediately to mind. It is because the Great Pyramid is the most popular of them all, and…
Ancient Egypt is a land filled with archeological mysteries, some of which have even turned into legends. Of all the monuments of the ancient world, it is perhaps the pyramids…
The Great Pyramid of Giza–the largest of the three ancient Pyramids at the Giza plateau–is a building worthy of gods. Not only is this massive pyramid impressive because of its…
Long before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 3rd dynasty during the Old Kingdom and the founder of this epoch called Netjerikhet revolutionized Egypt in ways that perhaps even…
With a base area less than a quarter of that of the Pyramid of Khufu and Khafre, having an original height of around 66 meters, the Pyramid of Menkaure represents…
Why Pyramids and why the pyramidal shape? There are countless pyramids scattered across the globe built across thousands of years by different cultures which were allegedly never in contact with…
This city of the dead in stone and sand is the otherworldly counterpart of the living city of Memphis in ancient Egypt. The Saqqara plateau was home to eleven ancient…
The most famous pyramids on Earth, although not the most numerous, are located in modern-day Egypt. The three perhaps most famous pyramids are those that were built at the Giza…
Over the years, numerous weird things have been reported by news outlets around the globe, from Pyramids in Antarctica to crashed UFO and secret alien and government bases. In other…
Of all the ancient monuments that have been built by ancient civilizations across millennia, none compares to the great Sphinx of Giza. Standing at the footsteps of some of the…
There’s a massive monolithic statue right next to Egypt’s most famous pyramids, and no one knows its purpose, exact age, or history. We know its old. Like, really old. In…
4,500 years ago, the Great Pyramid of Giza is believed to have been built on the arid Giza plateau, not far from Cairo. It would remain the tallest structure on…
Egypt was a cradle of civilization, allowing the same basic culture and language to prosper for nearly 3,000 years. Even before the rise of the first Pharaoh that united the…
If there was a competition among all the ancient statues on Earth and we were to include things like the most mysterious, the oldest, and the largest, the Sphinx would…
Exploring Mars has always been of great importance to humans. Not only because Mars is relatively close to Earth, but because the red planet is eerily similar to our own…
We’ve wondered for decades how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids. Countless theories have been proposed to explain how this ancient civilization managed to erect the only ancient wonder of…
People observed mysterious things in the sky since even before history was written. Strange lights, ‘falling stars’ comets, asteroids, and other inexplicable things have been observed worldwide since mankind has…
The Zapata Footprint is an alleged human footprint embedded in a Permian rock in New Mexico. Referred to by some as the New Mexico track or the Zapata track, a…