The most common pyramids are square-based, rectangular-based and triangular-based pyramids. The surface area of a pyramid can be calculated by adding the area of the base to the sum of the areas of ...

A 3D shape with all straight edges and flat faces is a polyhedron. Other 3D shapes with least one curved surface are not polyhedra. A 3D shape with regular polygonal faces, meeting at equal angles, is ...

While the Egyptian pyramids are the most famous, they are not the only ones; in fact, one country has even more.

Archaeologists have begun digging for what they think might be a pyramid hidden beneath a hill in Bosnia. Known as Visocica, the 650m (2,120ft) triangular mound, overlooking Visoko, has long been ...