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Red-ochre crew names in Khufu’s pyramid reveal a managed worksite, not a slave camp
The Great Pyramid is not a book about enslaved labor, it is a file cabinet constructed out of rocks. Across the roof of the King Chamber upstairs, over and under, among crevices are these red-ochre ...
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 ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN
A pencil-thin camera maps Khufu’s hidden entrance passage
We’re going to continue our scanning so we will see what we can do… to figure out what we can find out beneath it, or just by ...
Scans of the third-largest pyramid at Giza, the Menkaure pyramid, have revealed two anomalous pockets of nothing but air hiding behind its sloping stone walls. The discovery follows earlier findings ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
These fragments of a small, wooden slat (possibly remnants of a measuring rule used during construction of the Khufu Pyramid, otherwise known as the Great Pyramid of Giza) were first discovered at the ...
The journey begins with a search for answers about the missing body of Pharaoh Khufu. The journey begins with a search for answers about the missing body of Pharaoh Khufu, the man behind the most ...
For more than a century, Egyptologists have dated the Great Pyramid to around 2580 BC, about 4,600 years ago. A controversial new study now claims the monument could be tens of thousands of years ...
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