Since the construction of the Montparnasse Tower in 1973, Paris has not built a single skyscraper within its city limits.

Park Jong-kyu's new work 'Code of Eternity' stands in the Giza Desert, Cairo, Egypt. Measuring 15 meters wide and long, 4 meters high. The pyramid of Pharaoh Khufu from 4,500 years ago in ancient ...

In this deep dive into the Great Pyramid’s design, viewers explore how the ancient structure encodes complex mathematical concepts like pi and the golden ratio. Even more stunning is the discovery ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Each of these nine black plastic ...

The pyramids of Egypt are history’s ultimate “wait, that can’t be real” achievements. These ancient wonders were built thousands of years ago, yet they remain taller, heavier, and way more mysterious ...

The Neolithic Age may be something of a misnomer, falsely offering stone rather than perishable wood as the period’s primary building material, but its monumental architectures sure make a compelling ...

Remote sensing at a landscape park in Poland uncovered ancient structures buried beneath. Screengrab from Team of Landscape Parks of the Greater Poland Voivodeship's Facebook post Constructed pyramids ...

“Bille” is the first-ever monostable tetrahedron, or a pyramid-like shape with four triangular faces that has one stable resting position. What this means is that Bille, no matter how you throw it and ...

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Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden ...

The word ‘iconic’ gets bandied around a little too much these days, but if you’ve ever been stuck in traffic on the M60 or surveyed the surroundings from the redbrick viaduct, you’ll know that the big ...