Differences in how the pyramid and surrounding soil vibrate, along with design choices, have protected the structure from earthquakes.

Researchers measured the natural vibrations at 37 locations inside and around the Pyramid of Giza to assess its behavior in an earthquake.

What did the ancient Greeks and Egyptians call the pyramids, and what did these ancient words originally mean?

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately ...

Claims of an ancient pyramid in Antarctica grew out of fiction, conspiracy theories, and later Google Earth speculation, but ...