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An ancient Egyptian mystery: The sphinx painting nobody can explain
A look at a truly mysterious painting, 'The Questioner of the Sphinx', by Elihu Vedder, and the context in which it was ...
Imhotep's masterpiece: The secrets behind Pharaoh Djoser's step pyramid
R ecently, a French scientific study shed new light on the construction methods of the ancient Egyptians, particularly regarding the Great Pyramid of Zoser. The study, published i ...
AI for the ancient world: how a new machine learning system can help make sense of Latin inscriptions
Named Aeneas (after the mythical hero of Rome’s foundation epic), the system is a generative neural network designed to ...
'First words of Moses' inscribed in 3,800-year-old Egyptian mines could prove the Bible true
A new interpretation of 3,000-year-old inscriptions carved into the walls of an ancient Egyptian turquoise mine suggests they ...
Archaeologists May Have Discovered the World’s Oldest Burial Ground
Archaeologists working at the Tinshemet Cave in Israel believe they’ve discovered one of the world’s oldest human burial ...
Who was Nostradamus—and why do his predictions still rile us up?
Long before TikTok theories, Nostradamus captivated Europe with his eerily accurate predictions. Here’s the history of the ...