Architect Roisin Heneghan said inspiraction for the museum’s design came from its ancient neighbors — the Pyramids of Giza

When most people picture Egyptian pyramids, they imagine gold treasures and mummy-filled chambers straight out of an adventure movie. The reality turns out to be far more bizarre. Archaeologists have uncovered everything from mysterious texts about cannibalism to the bones of animals that definitely shouldn’t have been there.

The building, as big as Vatican City with a collection larger than the Louvre, has been in the making for over 30 years and is finally set to formally open in November, Maira Butt writes

Thousands of years and conspiracies have all led to this: the Great Pyramid of Giza may have been built using the basic pulley technology.

Two years ago, a team of research scientists announced they would use muon tomography to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu. They planned to image internal structures that are inaccessible to researchers, and hopefully ...

However, World War 1 and Mr Barasanti's death in 1917 meant that for decades, hardly anyone knew of its existence, as the military sealed it off and used it as a base, hence its new nickname as Egypt's very own Area 51. Access to the pyramids has been restricted since 1964.

A new theory shows the Great Pyramid was built from the inside out, using counterweights and pulleys instead of massive external ramps.

(NEXSTAR) – For 50 years, a metal propane-tank shaped contraption was buried, forgotten, under San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid. But when the iconic building changed hands, its new owners unearthed the buried tank, discovering pieces of San ...