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New satellite scans have uncovered hidden chambers inside Egypt’s ancient pyramids, revealing structures that were completely unknown until now. These discoveries suggest the pyramids may be far more ...

03:47, Tue, Dec 9, 2025 Updated: 03:54, Tue, Dec 9, 2025 A team of Italian researchers left the world astounded last March when they revealed the discovery of an enormous subterranean network ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt at ...

Ground-penetrating radar has helped archeologists identify buried wonders below the surface. Now, a study from Japanese and Egyptian researchers reveals the discovery of an L-shaped structure along ...

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Paris has experienced a veritable chocolate wave in recent years. New shops, created by French culinary legends and ...

A 3D shape with all straight edges and flat faces is a polyhedron. Other 3D shapes with least one curved surface are not polyhedra. A 3D shape with regular polygonal faces, meeting at equal angles, is ...

A team of researchers has teamed up with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities for a project called "Scan Pyramids" which will use methods such as infrared thermography to scan and map the pyramids of ...

If you feel a policy, law or even a world leader needs changing, the first step is simple: you protest. Protesting has long been a way for marginalized communities to combat oppression. But the act of ...

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