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A man whose pyramid investment scheme bilked fellow Colombians out of hundreds of millions of dollars has been sentenced to 30 years and eight months in prison for a money-laundering conviction.
A Colombian businessman has been convicted in a notorious pyramid scheme that authorities say bilked investors out of more than $2.4 billion.
Prosecutors said they were trying to negotiate a plea agreement Wednesday with a third suspect in Colombia's most notorious pyramid scheme after two executives accepted reduced sentences.
Archaeologists have discovered a new pyramid under the sands of Saqqara, an ancient burial site that has yielded a string of unearthed pyramids in recent years but remains largely unexplored.
Placido Domingo's concert at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza on Saturday night is being billed as "the world's greatest tenor at one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World," a claim few lovers of opera or history would dispute.
Egyptian archaeologists unveiled on Thursday a 4,000-year-old "missing pyramid" that is believed to have been discovered by an archaeologist almost 200 years ago and never seen again.
A French architect claimed Friday to have uncovered the mystery about how Egypt's Great Pyramid of Khufu was built — with use of a spiral ramp to hoist huge stone blocks into place.
Within weeks of Hitler's 1933 rise to power, the iron gates slammed shut on inmates of the first Nazi concentration camps. It was the start of an unparalleled experiment in persecution and genocide that expanded over the next 12 years into a pyramid of ghettos, Gestapo prisons, slave labor camps and, ultimately, extermination factories.
A British archaeologist on Friday rejected claims that a hill in central Bosnia is a man-made structure that many local residents insist is a pyramid.
An Egyptian geologist who arrived to check on claims by an amateur researcher that a hill in central Bosnia is hiding an ancient pyramid said Wednesday the structure is man made and worth investigating.
Finally, the mystique of the "Golden Ratio" revealed!Supposedly, Greek philosopher Pythagoras discovered this ratio — ancient Greeks incorporated it into their art and architecture while the ancient Egyptians used the 'Golden Ratio' to construct their pyramids.
Uncovering an Ancient Mayan City's Secrets, with world's largest pyramidEl Mirador covered an area larger than downtown Los Angeles, and Hansen believes it may be home to thousands of other pyramids, Baldwin said. The city was active from about 500 B.C. to A.D. 100.
Pyramid Mystery in ChinaAbout 80 meters away from the caves is the shimmering Toson Lake, on whose beach 40 meters away, many iron pipes can be found scattered on sands and rocks. They run in the east-west direction with a diameter between 2 and 4.5 centimeters.
Guatemala Mayan city may have ended in pyramid battleOne of Guatemala's greatest ancient Mayan cities may have died out in a bloody battle atop a huge pyramid between a royal family and invaders from hundreds of miles away, archaeologists say.
Mammoth Pyramidal Arcology Designed for New OrleansArcology may sound like a made up word - probably because it is. A hybrid of architecture and ecology, it is essentially a mega city which packs a ginormous population into one hyperstructure - think Death Star, Zion in The Matrix or the Anthill of Antz fame.
Great Pyramid Mystery to Be Solved by Hidden Room?Greek historian Herodotus, writing around 450 B.C., theorized the use of small, wooden, cranes or levers to lift the blocks. But, Brier said, "you'd have to have thousands, and they didn't have enough wood in all of Egypt for that," Brier said.
Update: Return to the Great PyramidThe little thermometer/compass clipped to my bag read 111 degrees as I began climbing the Great Pyramid in search of evidence for how it was built. We know it was the tomb of the pharaoh Khufu and that Hemienu, Khufu's brother, directed its construction some 4,500 years ago.
Ancient Elite Island With Pyramid Found in MexicoThe island, called Apupato, belonged to the powerful Tarascan Empire, which dominated much of western Mexico from A.D. 1400 to 1520, before the European conquest of the region.
Egypt to open chambers of 'bent' pyramidTravelers to Egypt will soon be able to explore the inner chambers of the 4,500-year-old "bent" pyramid, known for its oddly shaped profile, and other nearby ancient tombs.
IMF Survey: IMF Advice Helps Fight Financial Fraud as Schemes MultiplyControlling and closing down pyramids, and particularly Ponzi schemes, can be politically difficult—especially if politicians or other important people are subscribers to the scheme. Once they grow, the authorities may be increasingly reluctant to trigger their collapse.
Mystery Pyramid Built by Newfound Ancient Culture?Several stone sculptures recently found in central Mexico point to a previously unknown culture that likely built a mysterious pyramid in the region, archaeologists say.
Great Pyramid Mystery to Be Solved by Hidden Room?A sealed space in Egypt's Great Pyramid may help solve a centuries-old mystery: How did the ancient Egyptians move two million 2.5-ton blocks to build the ancient wonder?
Great Pyramid Mystery to Be Solved by Hidden Room?A sealed space in Egypt's Great Pyramid may help solve a centuries-old mystery: How did the ancient Egyptians move two million 2.5-ton blocks to build the ancient wonder?
In pictures: New pyramid foundArchaeologists in Egypt say they have discovered another pyramid - the country's 118th so far - from the sands at Saqqara, just south of the capital Cairo.
4,300-year-old pyramid discovered in Egypt4,300-year-old pyramid has been discovered at the Saqqara necropolis outside Cairo, Egypt's culture minister said on Tuesday.
New pyramid discovered in EgyptEgypt's chief archaeologist has announced the discovery of a 4,300-year-old pyramid in Saqqara, the sprawling necropolis and burial site of the rulers of ancient Memphis.
Location: Giza - 20 km from Giza Pyramids . Who built it? This complex was designed by the architect Imhotep for his master Zoser , the founder of the third dynasty . Manetheo recorded that this king ruled for 29 years. Why was it built ?
Ancient Peru Pyramid Spotted by SatelliteA new remote sensing technology has peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome.
Shining Light on Ancient Questions: Underwater Pyramid in JapanA pyramid-like structure has been found underwater off the coast of Japan that might change what we know about early civilization, ancient communication, and 'lost-continent' myths like Atlantis. In 1985, dive tour operator Kihachiro Aratake discovered a massive stone structure …
A Pyramid, Lost for 4,000 Years In The Sands of Egypt Has Been Found... And National Geographic Has The PhotosThe foundations of a pyramid long lost under the sands of Egypt lie exposed on June 2, 2008. Archaeologists today announced the rediscovery of the ruins in Saqqara, south of Cairo. (Read the full story.)
Egypt discovers missing sections of Sphinx road, bottom part of pyramid The missing sections of the so-called Sphinx road and the bottom part of an unknown pyramid in Sakkara area have been discovered in southwest Cairo, the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities (SCA) said on Tuesday.
Finding Legit Work-From-Home JobsMany of the questions appear to be about multilevel marketing, one of the most common forms of work from home. More on MLMs in a moment.
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