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Blocks too heavy for modern cranes sit inside the pyramid
Some granite blocks inside the Great Pyramid weigh more than 60 tons. They were hauled from Aswan, hundreds of miles away. Getting them to Giza was the easy part.
After using the "Relative Erosion Method" to uncover how old the Great Pyramid of Giza is, Alberto Donini suggests it may date to 22916 B.C.E.
Greek writer and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis once said, “All my life, one of my greatest desires has been to travel, to see ...
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Forget 2.3 million blocks - the pyramid might be a limestone shell
We’ve been told the Great Pyramid was built from 2.3 million hand-carved 3-ton blocks. But new analysis suggests that might be wrong. Archaeologists now believe large parts of the structure could be ...
Looking at erosion on the pyramid, the study suggests that it may have been built around 22,916 BCE. But you shouldn't ...
A preliminary study, based on a new method for dating ancient structures, suggests that the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Giza could be tens of thousands of years older than what traditional Egyptology ...
From food pyramids to school lunches and climate policy, here’s how Trump’s second term is influencing the future of vegan ...
The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about ...
A study has shown evidence that Egypt's first pyramid, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, may have been built using hydraulic power, with signs of water facilities.
Tabloids have seized on the most headline-friendly takeaway - “pulleys built the pyramid” - but the underlying claim is more specific: the pyramid may have grown “inside-out,” using internal sloped ...
The only remaining Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza, has stood in the Egyptian desert for more ...
Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking new theory on how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built, positing that they used a pulley ...
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