Recent excavations at a pyramid in Mexico confirm it once served as a ceremonial center, officials said. Photo from INAH More than 3,000 years ago, a series of stone pyramids were constructed in the ...

High above the Dead Sea, archaeologists are working through a collapsed stone pyramid that is about 2,200 years old and strangely hard to classify. From far away it looks like a plain mound, but up ...

The discovery of a tomb filled with decapitated bodies suggests that Mexico's 2,000-year-old "Pyramid of the Moon" may have been the site of horrifically gory sacrifices, archaeologists said Thursday.

A Boston-based archaeologist has developed a theory that the Egyptians delivered stone to the pyramids at Giza through a system of canals and harbors, shedding more light on the mystery of how ancient ...