From the glass atrium of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the three great Pyramids of Giza are perfectly framed on the desert horizon. The architects designed it this way; a deliberate alignment connecting ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...

While the Egyptian pyramids are the most famous, they are not the only ones; in fact, one country has even more. Credit: Greekreporter Archive Pyramids are geometric structures found around the world ...

Were the Egyptian pyramids truly just tombs built with eternity in mind? Or did they hold a far more practical meaning? For centuries, we have been told that the monumental structures of the pharaohs ...

Built at the dawn of the Ancient Egyptian civilization, the great Pyramids continue to inspire awe, millennia after their construction. The fact that the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra lived closer in time ...

Archaeologists have unearthed rare and historically significant “Polish pyramids” containing two megalith tombs from one of the region’s oldest agricultural societies. During a routine survey in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Each of these nine black plastic ...

Photo courtesy the Complex of Landscape Parks of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship. A pair of ancient tombs have been found in Poland that point to a distinctive Stone Age culture famous for earthen mounds ...

The Neolithic Age may be something of a misnomer, falsely offering stone rather than perishable wood as the period’s primary building material, but its monumental architectures sure make a compelling ...

Archaeologists in Poland discovered 5,500-year-old tombs dubbed “Polish pyramids.” The oversized graves feature earthen mounds in a trapezoidal shape, some stretching 656 feet in length. The scene ...

Remote sensing at a landscape park in Poland uncovered ancient structures buried beneath. Screengrab from Team of Landscape Parks of the Greater Poland Voivodeship's Facebook post Constructed pyramids ...