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Khufu’s second solar boat uncovered after 4500 years
Hundreds of foreign and Egyptian journalists along with photographers, cameramen and TV presenters flocked to the Giza Plateau for the unveiling of Khufu’s second solar boat. The second solar boat remained sealed in its pit until 1987 when the American National Geographic Society examined it in association with the Egyptian Office for Historical Monuments. The... »
Great Pyramid markings are likely numerals
Hieroglyphs written in red paint on the floor of a hidden chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid are numerical signs meaning 100, 20 and 1. “The builders simply recorded the total length of the shaft: 121 cubits,” Luca Miatello, an independent researcher told Discovery News. Shown to the world last month, when the first report of... »
Pyramids’ Cave World Discovered At Giza
Huge natural cave world full of bats has been found close to the Great Pyramid on Giza’s famous plateau, leading archaeologists now confirm. // FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 02, 2010 – A vast natural cave system has been discovered beneath the shadow of the Great Pyramid, and now it’s... »
Robot to explore shafts in Great Pyramid
Image via Wikipedia For 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid at Giza has enthralled, fascinated and ultimately frustrated everyone who has attempted to penetrate its secrets. Now a robotics team from Leeds University, working with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, is preparing a machine which they hope will solve one of its enduring mysteries. At its heart are... »
Guilt becomes an inspiration for art piece featured at the Tate
Image via Wikipedia When Andy Holden was 12, he broke and stole a chunk of the Great Pyramid of Giza during a visit to Egypt with his father, who was there on business. The guilt kept creeping up until it it became so unbearable that Holden, now an sculptor, had to do something positive to raise... »
The Great Pyramid of Giza: an Engineering Enigma
Image by OMassilia via Flickr Since its construction 4,500 years ago, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the only standing one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, has remained an engineering enigma. Previous theories have suggested that the Great Pyramid builders raised the man made structure’s millions of stone blocks using an external ramp, either... »
New boost to Great Pyramid internal ramp theory
A recent National Geographic video shows French architect Jean Pierre Houdin being presented with a diagram depicting low density spiral shapes inside the Great Pyramid, which may be a sign of internal ramps. Early last year, Houdin proposed a theory that the Great Pyramid of Khufu was built from the inside out using internal ramps. Previous... »
