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The latest advances in technology have allowed Italian researchers to see beneath the soil of the Cahuachi Peruvian desert from satellite heights. Lying deep under the mud, there is a large, ancient adobe pyramid. Scientists Nicola Masini and Rosa Lasaponara from Italy's National Research Council (CNR) have... |
4 October 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Among the most puzzling monuments in the world, pyramids are also among the first large-scale landmarks, built with no help from the engineering and technology of modern times. Although the large majority thinks of Egypt when speaking of pyramids, it is not the only place where they exist(ed).Geometrically speaking, ... |
30 September 2008
09:17 GMT |
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Just got word from Marketcircle that Daylite 3.7.5 is now available. The powerful productivity suite, which goes beyond contacts and appointments to include projects opportunities, now re-enables the Crash Reporter that was inadvertently disabled in a previous release, and includes other, minor bug fixes.Daylite inte... |
1 August 2008
03:08 GMT |
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The "Headless Pyramid", or Number 29 as it was previously known as, stands today only as the foundation of the ancient structure. It was first discovered in the middle of the 19th century, by Karl Richard Lepsius, a German archaeologist, but the sands of Saqqara buried it, its location being lost. Yesterday, archaeol... |
6 June 2008
04:18 GMT |
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Music might not have a physical shape, but it is possible to use a mathematical approach see what the shape of music might look like. Florida State University, Yale University and Princeton University researchers Clifton Callender, Ian Quinn and Dmitri Tymoczko respectively have recently demonstrated a technique thro... |
8 May 2008
06:03 GMT |
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There is nothing more defining for the Egyptian civilization than the royal tombs called pyramids. Donald Redford, professor of Classics and ancient Mediterranean studies at Penn State has attempted, on Physorg.com, to explain how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, based on their solar religion. The Egyptian s... |
28 March 2008
09:45 GMT |
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The history of Peru involves more than the Inca civilization. Pyramid remains have been found at Piura (on the northern Peruvian coast), by construction crews, in January. Now, a team from the Peruvian National Institute of Culture (INC) has announced that the site, 2 mi (3.2 km) long and 1 mi (1.6 km) wide, belonge... |
21 February 2008
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The Great Sphinx of Giza is the largest monolith statue in the world. It is 73.5 m (241 ft) long, 6 m (20 ft) wide, and 20 m (65 ft) high and represent the oldest known monumental sculpture. But its origins are still a subject of debate, as the statue seems to be much older than the Egyptian civilization. In the famo... |
12 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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1. The fertile banks of the Nile River offered several annual crops, as many floodings the river produced. The farmers would eagerly wait for the flooding, because after the water's retreat, the fields remained covered with a thick layer of mud on which the crops grew rapidly. This condition boosted the existenc... |
30 January 2008
15:58 GMT |
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Nubia is the name of a region historically located in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, at the gates of Black Africa, stretching from the first cataract to the sixth cataract of the Nile River. The Egyptians called the main Nubia kingdom 'Kush'. Kush was located on the region of the third cataract and was ... |
29 January 2008
08:37 GMT |
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The Aztecs founded their bloody empire around A.D. 1200, and their civilization lasted only 300 years, while their empire dominated the area only 100 years before falling under the sword of the conquistadors. Still, at its peak, the empire spread from central Mexico to Guatemala, and it was one of the most advanced c... |
9 January 2008
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This could be one of the most important discoveries of all Aztec archaeology: ground-penetrating radars have found underground chambers that could be the tomb of Emperor Ahuizotl, who ruled the Aztecs when Columbus reached the New World. This find is the first of its type and would offer a great opportunity to envisa... |
7 August 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Did you know the roots of words like "tomato", "chocolate", "ocelot" or "avocado"? They all come from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. The Aztecs were a warlike and deeply religious people, who ruled an Empire stretching over most of today's central Mexico. They are more known for their bloody rituals of rip... |
2 August 2007
06:43 GMT |
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As pyramids are a legend by themselves, it's now time to mix in another legend, Bang & Olufsen. It looks that they have finally revealed the mystery that surrounds their newest creation, a new pyramid-shaped loudspeaker. The Bang & Olufsen name is known throughout industrial history as a synonym to the most adva... |
12 July 2007
10:31 GMT |
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In 1974, Chinese farmers digging for a well accidentally made the biggest archaeological discovery ever in China: the tomb of the emperor Qinshihuang, of the Qin dynasty, which in 221 BC, unified China for the first time after extremely bloody wars. The western name of the country, China (Chinese people call themselv... |
3 July 2007
02:50 GMT |
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The common theory says that the Egyptian pyramids were made of carved giant limestone blocks that were carried up on ramps. But this explanation leaves a large quantity of unsolved questions. Two decades ago, Joseph Davidovits, Director of the Geopolymer Institute in St. Quentin, France, said that the pyramid blocks ... |
19 May 2007
08:06 GMT |
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Tiwanaku were the most important precursors of the mighty Inca Empire. But as they left no written records, many details about their culture remain unknown. Today only three Tiwanaku buildings still stand: the Akapana fortress-pyramid, the temple Kalasaya and the Palace of the Ten Doors. Now, archaeologists have dis... |
5 May 2007
04:24 GMT |
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The mystery of one the seven great wonders of antiquity (and the only one that still survives) may have been solved: the 4,500-year-old Egypt's Great Pyramid of Cheops could have been built from the inside out.The 146.6 m (480.9 ft) tall pyramid has 3 million stone blocks, each weighing roughly 2.5 tons, and the... |
31 March 2007
06:58 GMT |
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