Both Ponzi and pyramid schemes have been reinvented over the years, but at the core of each is essentially the same devious deceit-paying new investors with money from old investors.

In Kazakhstan’s Karaganda region, archaeologists uncovered a step pyramid predating many Egyptian structures. Built by the Begazy-Dandybai culture, it contained bronze artifacts and burial chambers ...

From the Bent Pyramid’s puzzling design to the quarry marks left behind in solid limestone, this feature explores how ancient ...