Key features of the famous monument defend it from earthquakes – but we can’t know if that’s what the builders had in mind.

Some of the most famous unexplained passages in Egypt may not be unexplained for much longer. By looking again at the Queen’s Chamber, the stepped internal core, and the pyramid’s possible fallback ...

Roig’s model found that using a single ramp would have been insufficient and would have required nearly half a century of construction to reach the pyramid’s completion. The Great Pyramid of Giza may ...

The authorities in Mexico are still piecing together how a typical morning at the ancient pyramid complex of Teotihuacán, one of the country's foremost tourist destinations, descended into terrifying ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The mystery of the missing scientists began with a Silver Alert. In late February, a retired Air Force major ...

The Pyramid of the Moon was the site of a shooting on April 20, 2026, in Teotihuacan, Mexico, on Aug. 1, 2024. Reporter A gunman opened fire Monday at a popular tourist site and important ...

One minute, he was enjoying a tour of Mexico’s iconic pyramid site, the next he found himself standing barely 40 feet from a gunman, forcing him to jump about 15 feet off a ledge in a desperate bid to ...

Footage of a gunman shooting at panicked tourists lying atop Mexico’s historic Pyramid of the Moon has renewed concerns about security in the country as it prepares to co-host millions of soccer fans ...

MEXICO CITY — A man fatally shot a ‌Canadian woman and injured several others before killing himself Monday at Mexico’s Teotihuacán ⁠pyramids, a popular tourist and archaeological site outside Mexico ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza. Credit: Douwe C. van der Zee / CC BY-SA 4.0 A new Great Pyramid theory is challenging long-standing ideas about how ancient Egyptians built Khufu’s monument at Giza, ...

Have they finally solved the ancient Egyptians’ pyramid scheme? Aliens might not have built the pyramids — but the ancient Egyptians might’ve had a pretty cool hack nonetheless. A cutting-edge 3D ...