Get facts, photos, and travel tips for Chichen Itza, a World Heritage site in Mexico, from National Geographic.

The pyramids here aren’t as large as other Maya ruins in Mexico, but the setting, on 40ft-high cliffs above turquoise Caribbean waters south of Cancun, more than makes up for it. 3. Cobá ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Old Kingdom pyramids — II . Zahi Hawass, Tuesday 26 Nov 2024. Zahi Hawass continues his history of pyramids surviving from the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom. Pyramid of Unas .

The pyramids of the middle of the third millennium in Egypt (the Old Kingdom), built as tombs for the kings of the period, were oriented to the cardinal points with extraordinary precision.

A new study sequencing the first complete ancient Egyptian genome reveals the 4,500-year-old man had significant ancestry ...

Everyone knows that the Egyptian pyramids are ancient — but exactly how old are they? Historians estimate that they were built between roughly 2700 and 1500 B.C.E., with construction on Giza's ...

The Egyptian Old Kingdom ended over 4,000 years ago, but amazingly we still have access to a number of primary sources dating from the era. Jaromir Malek uncovers the evidence. The historical ...

The Egyptian Old Kingdom ended over 4,000 years ago, but amazingly we still have access to a number of primary sources dating from the era. Jaromir Malek uncovers the evidence. The historical ...