Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the last 50 years – from secret Maya pyramids and fascinating fossils to ...

New muon scans in 2023 unveiled a corridor‑like void inside the Great Pyramid — a sealed space hidden above the Grand Gallery that may never have been seen by modern eyes. The mystery of what it was ...

Why it's incredible: El Cono stands alone in the rainforest and has a mysterious pyramidal shape. Cerro El Cono is a 1,310-foot-tall (400 meters), pyramid-like formation in the Amazon rainforest. It ...

Two years ago, a team of research scientists announced they would use muon tomography to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu. They planned to image internal ...

A secret doorway inside an ancient Egyptian pyramid is believed to have been discovered by a scientist, over 4,500 years on from when it was originally built. The Pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of ...

(NEXSTAR) – For 50 years, a metal propane-tank shaped contraption was buried, forgotten, under San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid. But when the iconic building changed hands, its new owners ...

Archaeologists have discovered two strange structures lurking beneath the ground next to the world-famous pyramids of Giza in Egypt. Using radar and electrical technologies, a team of Japanese and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using an imaging method based on cosmic rays have detected a large and enigmatic internal structure in the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still ...