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A growing number of ancient Egyptian stone vases are being digitally scanned and analyzed with modern engineering tools. The ...

The first installment of a gripping new trilogy blends high-concept science fiction with global conspiracy and ancient ...

The old World history textbook I used in school specifically stated something like, “Some people, looking at the Pyramids of ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

More than 4,000 years before modern highways and petroleum refineries, Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia were engineering materials in ways that closely resemble advanced asphalt technology, according ...

Bow drill in action, New Kingdom tomb painting from Western Thebes, Tomb of Rekhmire, object 31.6.25. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A small metal object discovered more than a century ago is ...

The secrets of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship continue to astonish the world. A recent groundbreaking study published in Egypt and the Levant has revealed a hidden treasure in the annals of early ...

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A tiny copper-alloy object excavated about a century ago in Upper Egypt has just been re-identified as something far bigger than it looks: the earliest known metal rotary drill from ancient Egypt, ...

A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested. Researchers at Newcastle University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, ...