Massive stone pyramids rise above dense forest in Tikal National Park, Guatemala. The structures stand surrounded by thick ...

In ancient Egypt, what was the Sphinx all about? – Effie, age 8, New Plymouth, New Zealand. One of the most mysterious and ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

Beneath Egypt’s Step Pyramid is a vast maze of tunnels, shafts, and chambers carved deep into the bedrock. In the lowest levels, rare access reveals precision stone artifacts, alabaster boxes, and ...

The twin reactors of Hinkley Point C in Somerset will form the first nuclear power plant built in the UK for 30 years.

On the social plane, we have in India a society basedon graded inequality…elevation for some and degradation for others.” — ...

More than a millennium before Cleopatra, the female ruler Hatshepsut blazed a trail for powerful women in the ancient ...

Constructed between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, Great Zimbabwe features massive stone enclosures built entirely without mortar. Granite blocks were carefully shaped and stacked to create ...

Since it first premiered in 1993, the "Power Rangers" series has introduced hugely powerful characters both evil and good. Here's how they rank.

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

South Florida PBS (WPBT, WXEL, and the Health Channel) proudly announces its February schedule of premieres, featuring powerful storytelling in celebration of Black History Month, compelling ...