The discovery may help to explain a long-running mystery about a mysterious feature found on the outside of the ancient tomb.

The number 1888081808881 is interesting on several counts. First, it’s a prime number, evenly divisible only by itself and 1. In base 10, it’s also a palindromic number. It has the same sequence of ...

When we think of the Egyptian pyramids, we of course think of the Giza Plateau, the Great Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khafre and the pyramid of Menkaure. Many of us will also know about the Bent Pyramid ...

Completed around 2500 B.C. for Pharaoh Khufu, this pyramid contains “the first granite burial chamber in the history of ancient Egypt,” says Kawae, noting that experts believe building this ...