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 ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Seventeen years ago, Ben Carson delivered a commencement address at ...

Elon Musk took to Twitter to share in a conspiracy theory that says aliens built Egypt’s pyramids. “Aliens built the pyramids obv,” he wrote. In a second tweet, he pointedly said that Ramesses II’s ...