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Engineers Found Evidence of Hydraulics in an Ancient Pyramid, Solving a 4,500-Year-Old Mystery
In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt—believed to be the oldest of the ...
Archaeologists Dug Under an Ancient Greek City—and Found a 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Settlement
On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...
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Roger Hopkins, Stonemason
HOPKINS: I have a landscape stone masonry business called Naturalistic ... how impressive do you find it that the ancient Egyptians managed to raise these objects? HOPKINS: I've found that when ...
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Egyptian pyramids were built using an incredibly clever machine, new research suggests
Ancient Egyptian ... the stone blocks. Historical records suggest that the labor force consisted of highly trained workers rather than slaves, as previously believed. These craftsmen, masons ...
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What were ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs?
The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods. The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient ...