Egypt to open inner chambers of 'bent' pyramid

Travelers 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, Egypt's antiquities chief announced Monday.

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Egypt pyramids to lose the peddlers, get fenced in

Tourists have long been awed by Egypt's famed Giza Pyramids and irritated by having to fend off peddlers relentlessly offering camel rides and trinkets.

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Iraqi Religious Leaders Call for Peace

Appeals from religious leaders and an unusual daytime curfew Friday curbed violence that claimed more than 140 lives across Iraq after the bombing of a Shiite shrine. President Bush joined in calling for calm, saying "This is a moment of choosing for the Iraqi people."

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Egypt's leading Egyptologist, Dr Zahi Hawass, has revealed that an excavation team under his charge are investigating an ancient tomb at the centre of claims regarding the alleged discovery of a cave underworld beneath the Pyramids of Giza.

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Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade. More Articles

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Collins' New Egypt Book Gives New Meaning to Adage 'As above, so below' as He Reveals Caves Beneath Giza Plain

Although the title and advance news of this latest book by Andrew Collins promotes the discovery of a vast cave network beneath the Giza plain, in fact that part of the book is just one section of the volume.

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Why did an ancient Mayan people just seemingly walk away from this site? They abandoned pyramids, palaces, corn grinders, tools, plantations, and homes for no reason that the scientific team has been able to discern.

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An enormous system of caves, chambers and tunnels lies hidden beneath the Pyramids of Giza, according to a British explorer who claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs.

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Hopefully, besides mainstream Egyptologists, such as Mark Lehner and IES Edwards, (RIP) other Egyptologists do not suggest that the copper chisels, that can now be found in the Cairo Museum, were representative of the tools used to build the pyramids.

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Some of Egypt's most magnificent pyramids were deliberately designed to follow a pattern of invisible diagonal lines, an Italian study has concluded.

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A 250-METRE-long embankment, a quay and some Ptolemaic baths are the most recent discoveries at Karnak Temples, Nevine El-Aref reports.

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Controversy surrounding the Pyramids at Güimar is not a new thing.   For years, experts have been arguing whether the steps of lava stone were just random placements by local farmers as they cleared the land, or whether they were the step formations of pyramids.

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"Right now everybody thinks the Romans invented concrete," says Michel Barsoum. "Well, I've got bad news for the Romans. The Egyptians did it 2,000 years earlier."

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For Korany, the painstaking progression in the engineering of the pyramids is evidence they didn't somehow spring perfectly formed from the sands or descend intact from the heavens.

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Edgar Cayce Expedition Discovers Caves Beneath Giza Pyramids

The A.R.E., the research foundation originally started by the late medical psychic Edgar Cayce, has announced to its members that a dig discovered massive caves beneath the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. A team led by explorer and author Andrew Collins made the discovery.

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Deep below the Egyptian desert, archaeologists have found evidence of yet another pyramid, this one constructed 4,300 years ago to store the remains of a pharaoh's mother. That makes 138 pyramids discovered here so far, and officials say they expect to find more.

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Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a pyramid buried in the desert and thought to belong to the mother of a pharaoh who ruled more than 4,000 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief said on Tuesday.

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We've been hearing about new planets being discovered lately, but I find the discovery of a 4300 year old pyramid under the sands of Egypt far more interesting. Very Indiana Jones...

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Believers say it is a discovery that will rewrite the history of the world.

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Far from becoming extinct 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs actually co-existed with early humans, and even helped in the construction of the pyramids.

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The monuments may be glorious, but visiting Egypt's famed Giza Pyramids has long been a nightmare, with hawkers peddling camel rides and pharaonic trinkets hustling tourists relentlessly at every turn. But now the hustlers are gone, as Egypt unveiled on Monday the first stage of …

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What really grabbed my eye this week was not so much a geeky gadget but a really cool toy I wish I had when I was a kid. See, I loved building forts, little playhouses, and tents for imaginary play, and I loved my Tinker Toys.

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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.

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The Aztecs, Mayans and ancient Egyptians were three very different civilizations with one very large similarity: pyramids.

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Two of the pyramids of Giza , the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, were conceived as a single project--a sort of grandiose stage show to represent the final and most important part of a pharaoh's journey to the afterlife, an Italian study has concluded.

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The remnants of at least ten pyramids have been discovered on the coast of Peru, marking what could be a vast ceremonial site of an ancient, little-known culture, archaeologists say.

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Many 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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A structure believed to be an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid has been discovered in central Mexico City and could drastically revise the early history of the ancient empire, officials announced.

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