Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
Historians have, for centuries, assumed that the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built as great tombs only for the elite and powerful. New research at the ancient archaeological site of Tombos, in modern-day Sudan, however, suggests this conventional assumption may not…
A significant archaeological excavation is currently being conducted in the Judean Desert, where a gigantic 2,200-year-old pyramidal monument, which dates back to the Hellenistic period, has been unearthed. The excavation, led by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in collaboration with…
Archaeologists excavating the Chupacigarro site in Peru have uncovered a previously unknown pyramidal structure. The discovery, led by Dr. Ruth Shady and a multidisciplinary team from the Caral Archaeological Zone, was found in Sector F of Chupacigarro, located one kilometer…
A recent study proposes a revolutionary theory about the construction of Egypt’s Step Pyramid of Djoser, suggesting that ancient Egyptians may have used an advanced hydraulic lift system to raise the massive stone blocks. This new hypothesis challenges the long-standing…
A recent study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, has unveiled why Egypt’s iconic pyramids are concentrated along a narrow desert strip. Researchers from the University of North Carolina Wilmington have discovered an extinct branch of the Nile…
During four excavation seasons at the Karajartas Mausoleum in the Shet district of Karaganda Region, archaeologists from Karaganda University in Kazakhstan unearthed a pyramid belonging to the Scythian-Saka period. The pyramid, a pyramidal stepped mausoleum, is believed to be a…
A joint Egyptian-German archaeological mission, led by Dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled, an Egyptologist from the Department of Egyptology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (JMU), has made a significant discovery within Sahura’s pyramid. The pyramid complex, attributed to King Sahure, the second…
A colossal step pyramid, believed to date back to the 2nd millennium BCE, has been unearthed in northern Kazakhstan’s Kyrykungir monumental complex. The unprecedented discovery, announced by the L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU) on August 8, 2023, is…
After an extensive two-year excavation project in Egypt, archaeologists have discovered the pyramid of an unidentified queen from ancient Egypt, along with a collection of coffins, mummies, artifacts, and an interconnected network of tunnels. This remarkable find took place in…
