At several of Egypt’s oldest pyramid sites, polished basalt floors preserve strange cuts, grooves, and tool marks that do not match simple hand methods. Some marks resemble plunge cuts and curved ...

One of the biggest unanswered questions in history for the past few thousand years is the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Since its erection, it has been an unsolved enigma as to how the ancient ...

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 ...

I recently discussed in this space the dominance of French-bred horses in National Hunt racing, and suggested that moves towards earlier development of jumps horses in Britain and Ireland, encouraged ...

Dr. Scheuring's study suggests the Great Pyramid used pulley and counterweight systems for construction The pyramid contains 2.3 million limestone bricks weighing between 2 to 60 tons each ...

15:54, Wed, Jan 21, 2026 Updated: 15:57, Wed, Jan 21, 2026 The only remaining Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza, has stood in the Egyptian desert for more than 4,500 years.

It was a real pyramid scheme. Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking new theory on how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built, positing that they used a pulley and counterweight system to erect it so ...

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Share on Pinterest Federal health officials say the inverted food pyramid structure in the new dietary guidelines will help make Americans healthier. Mapodile/Getty Images Federal officials have ...

Millman is the chair of the masters in branding program at the School of Visual Arts and the host of the podcast “Design Matters.” When the Trump administration unveiled its new 2026 dietary ...