As workers in Peru removed some overgrown trees from an archaeological site, they noticed some distinctive bricks hidden underneath — and found the ruins of an ancient pyramid-like structure.

Studio Link-Arc has designed the Inverted Architecture: A Mushroom Brick Pyramid installation ... consisting of 400 hanging mushroom bricks made from renewable and biodegradable materials.

Journey back four and a half thousand years to Egypt's Old Kingdom, to the Pyramid Age. As the vizier, or head of state, you are about to undertake the building of the king's pyramid.

More than 2,300,000 limestone and granite blocks were pushed, pulled, and dragged into place on the Great Pyramid. The average weight of a block is about 2.3 metric tons (2.5 tons). How much is that?

Bonding stones within the casing stones on the Pyramid of Khafre ... before being lowered to complete a row of bricks or stonework. After analyzing the three faces of the still mostly intact ...

At 146.5 m (481 ft) high, the Great Pyramid stood as the tallest structure in the world for more than 4,000 years. Today it stands at 137 m (449.5 ft) high, having lost 9.5 m (31 ft) from the top.

The pyramid is a solid mass of limestone blocks ... pupils could be given square containers to work with in order to create the bricks. The pupils could begin with the base and each could take ...