Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...

Ponzi and pyramid schemes both take advantage of unsuspecting individuals by promising extraordinary returns in exchange for their money. With Ponzi schemes, investors give money to a portfolio ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

Claims that a “world’s oldest pyramid” has been found in Indonesia have raced around social media, promising a 25,000-year ...

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This month's Genome Watch discusses the benefits and limitations of bottom-up versus top-down comparative genomic analyses of microbial populations, drawing on an example from a recent application of ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...

The Knowledge Hub provides a single centralized platform for global education data, research and good practices. It provides national-level data, including country profiles that highlight commitments, ...

The story of the highly skilled workers who helped build Egypt’s Great Pyramid is emerging from a papyrus cache unearthed at the world’s oldest harbor On a summer afternoon around 4,600 years ago, ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt at ...