Members of the Moveable Minyan, a Westside lay-led, egalitarian congregation, freed themselves from enslavement to matzah on Sunday by answering the seder’s “fifth” question: What can you do with ...

“No Jews built the pyramids because Jews didn’t exist at the period when the pyramids were built,” Mazar said. Dorothy Resig, an editor of Biblical Archaeology Review in Washington, D.C., said the ...

The Giza Pyramids are among the best documented construction projects of the ancient world, yet a stubborn slice of popular culture still credits them to visitors from another planet. I want to ...

How the great pyramids of Egypt were built has long been a hotly debated open question, given the sheer size and weight of the limestone blocks used for the construction. Numerous speculative (and ...

Even with cranes, helicopters, tractors and trucks at our disposal, it would be tough to construct the Great Pyramid of Giza today. Its construction 4,500 years ago is so astounding in some people's ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A captivating sight kicked off APEC week in San Francisco as performers from nonprofit BANDALOOP scaled the facade of the Transamerica Pyramid building. At first glance, the ...

On the edge of Brewerytown and Fairmount Park, there are no signs of slowing down at the historic Pyramid building, where the graffiti-laden exterior is gone, replaced with a fresh coat of paint, ...