A plan to cover a Giza pyramid with granite cladding has been called “absurd” after its proponents promised it would deliver “a gift from Egypt to the world”. The project aims to restore the Pyramid ...

Great Pyramid construction workers may have used a hidden internal pulley system rather than external ramps to move the ...

Tabloids have seized on the most headline-friendly takeaway - “pulleys built the pyramid” - but the underlying claim is more specific: the pyramid may have grown “inside-out,” using internal sloped ...

Behind the Temple of Seti I at Abydos sits the Osirion, a subterranean megalithic structure built from massive granite blocks and quartzite walls that feel completely out of place in dynastic Egypt.

Nightingale is as much about exploration as it is about crafting your dream base in the magical wilderness, but that doesn’t mean that stone blocks are any less important of a resource. As well as ...

Q: I’m thinking of buying a dilapidated old frame house in the country. It has a stone foundation that seems to me to be too close to the ground. Are stone foundations adequate and strong? Is it ...

The Sein Island submerged stone structures include a football-field-long granite wall off Brittany that dates back more than ...