What do we actually know about how people of the past understood the sky and developed a cosmology? When it comes to studying ancient astronomy, we must be careful not to assume too much.

The ancient Egyptians watched Earth’s night sky closely and named constellations after their gods. But did the builders of the pyramids really make these monuments with the stars in mind?

From the ancient city towers in Beijing to the pyramids in Cairo, we have gathered stunning works from global astronomy ...

There is no evidence in ancient texts that Egyptians used astronomical knowledge in building the pyramids. But analysis of the night sky in 2500 bc could help explain how the pyramid builders knew ...

An ultra-powerful scan of the pyramid’s interior could finally reveal the contents of two mysterious voids inside the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Because the best pyramid orientations occur for the two greatest pyramids, this could simply indicate that engineering science peaked at the time of Khufu– Khafre.

So how can cultural astronomy explain the pyramids’ alignment? A study from 2001 proposed that two stars, Megrez and Phad, in the stellar constellation known as Ursa Major may have been the key. These ...

In 2020, Elon Musk attracted scorn from experts when he took to Twitter - the social network that he bought in 2022 for $44billion - to write: 'Aliens built the pyramids obv'.

The Karnak temple in Egypt is aligned to sunrise on the December solstice Certain ancient Egyptian temples and tombs were indeed oriented towards certain regions of the sky, according to a new ...