The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...

Fresh radar scans on the Giza Plateau have revealed a buried “anomaly” that is forcing Egyptologists to rethink how people once entered the pyramids. The subsurface structure, detected near the tombs ...

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It's been an exceptional week for skywatchers, marked by mysterious sky spirals, the northern lights and, of course, this morning's long-anticipated sunrise solar eclipse. On Monday (March 24), a ...