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Did Egyptians Use Waterpower To Build The Pyramids?
A groundbreaking study suggests the ancient Egyptians may have used hydraulic power before we could have imagined this skill.
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How Did The Egyptians Build The Pyramids? Inside This Unsolved Ancient Mystery
"The pyramids are there as mountains of stone proving the otherworldly nature of their god-kings. You stand in front of those ...
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Ancient Claim Resurfaces of 20,000-Year-Old Labyrinth Beneath Egypt Pyramid
Researchers have renewed interest in an ancient Egyptian site that may conceal a vast underground labyrinth beneath the ...
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This Ancient High-Status Woman Was Buried With a Parrot-Feather Cape and a Beaded Toucan’s Beak in Modern-Day Peru
Around 5,000 years ago, members of an ancient Peruvian Indigenous group buried an elite member of their society: They wrapped ...
The ancient empire that civilization forgot
They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...
After Years of Delays, Egypt’s Most Ambitious Museum Project Finally Opens This Year—Here’s a Look Inside
Two decades after construction began, the Grand Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host ...
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The World’s Most Anticipated Museum Is Finally Open. (Well, Mostly.)
The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside. Visitors taking in the ancient pyramids of ...
The world’s most anticipated museum is finally open. (Well, mostly.)
The museum’s construction has been such a fiasco — mired by funding lapses, logistical hurdles, a pandemic, nearby wars, ...