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Great Pyramid of Giza may be 10,000 years older than we knew, study claims

A new claim that the Great Pyramid of Giza could be closer to 20,000 years old than to the 4,500 years accepted by most ...
Ancient Origins

Origins of the Great Pyramid “Upended”? New 20,000-Year Claim

A new, non-peer-reviewed report argues that Egypt’s Great Pyramid may be far older than the familiar Old Kingdom timeline, proposing an age in the order of tens of thousands of years. The claim hinges ...
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Geometric Model by R. Tibeotts, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Pyramid with Circumscribed Prisms

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This wooden model shows a triangular ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Ancient Pyramids Around the World

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...
Texarkana Gazette

Long-lost branch of the Nile helped in building Egypt’s pyramids

For 4,500 years, the pyramids of Giza have loomed over the western bank of the Nile River as a geometric mountain chain. The Great Pyramid, built to commemorate the reign of Pharaoh Khufu, the second ...
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Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Triangular Pyramid

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Models 1979.0102.205, MA.304723.715, ...