But the Egypt-based structure is by no means the only impressive pyramid in the world. Here, we dive into the largest pyramid in the world (an incredible Aztec achievement) as well as four other ...

One of the largest pyramids in the world is a Bass Pro Shops megastore in Memphis, Tennessee. The pyramid also hosts a hotel, indoor swamp, and bowling alley. However, for roughly a decade ...

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Around the world there are numerous ancient megastructures but perhaps pyramids capture our wonder the most. One of them has ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt ...

A motorcycle display team from India has succeeded in balancing 40 men on seven motorcycles to take the record ...

So what's so great about the Great Pyramid? Lots of stuff, like its amazing shape and dimensions. Click on the pyramid to find out more. Build a scale model of the Great Pyramid and compare it to ...

So it would be definitive once and for all that there really are pyramids in the Bosnian Visoko valley. But are there? Or is it the biggest hoax in history?

The Egyptian priests theorised that after death, a person’s soul, called ka, goes beyond the mountains to the west; to the land of Osiris, the ruler of the living and the dead. The Pyramids of ...