Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? launched the ancient astronaut movement and sold ...

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

They were not, so the polemic went, the work of 'puny' man, but instead those 'giants of Mars'. Yes, the Pyramids of Giza - those monuments to god-like splendour that have stood for more than 4,000 ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

Too soon to say if they may indicate undiscovered secret chambers, experts say. — -- While the discovery of "thermal anomalies" at Egypt's Giza pyramids by an international group of scientists ...