A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid.

Tabloids have seized on the most headline-friendly takeaway - “pulleys built the pyramid” - but the underlying claim is more specific: the pyramid may have grown “inside-out,” using internal sloped ...

Portions of thenew Dietary Guidelines for Americans have received praise from dietary experts, however, the messaging about ...

Make like a castaway in Panama, set sail from Chile’s hotel at the end of the world, dine at a 1km-long Finnish table — your ...

Health-conscious Americans, physicians and elected officials have been sounding alarms concerning the food pyramid for decades. It may now be a relic of corporate influence and bad advice.

Working on your night cheese is now endorsed by the federal government.

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A team of Italian scientists took the world by storm last March when they announced the discovery of a colossal underground complex plunging nearly 3,500 feet beneath Egypt's Giza Plateau and linking ...

Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...

The Pyramids: Special Economic Vortex Zones of North America explores pyramidal structures throughout the continent. Here, the book's creator Ian James comments on ten of the weirdest and most ...

Near the ancient Pyramids of Giza just outside Cairo, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) received a lavish opening last Saturday after two decades of delays. Massive statues and historic artefacts from ...

After 20 years of delays, the $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) near the Pyramids of Giza opened to the public on 4 November 2025. Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, the state-of-the-art ...