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This Mysterious Pyramid Dominated a Prehistoric Mexican City—and Still Guards Its Secrets
In 1785, a Spanish official named Don Diego Ruiz was looking for illegal tobacco plantations in the Papantla region of Mexico (then called New Spain), near the modern-day city of Veracruz, when he ...
ZME Science23d
Ancient Egyptians Might Have Used Water-Powered Hydraulics to Build First Grand Pyramid
Map of the Saqqara plateau showing the watercourse from the Gisr el-Mudir dam to the water treatment facility near Djoser pyramid. The water is then transferred to the pyramid’s network of pipes ...
Smithsonian Magazine26d
Seventy-Seven Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2024, From a Mysterious ‘Anomaly’ Near the Great Pyramid of Giza to a Missing Portrait of Henry VIII
The year’s most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost composition by Mozart and a medieval chess piece Fascinating finds unveiled ...
Indiatimes26d
Sign of life? Astral projection claims pyramid, large road sighted on ancient Mars
A declassified CIA document reveals that 40 years ago, a subject used astral projection to explore Mars around one million years BC. The subject reported seeing pyramids, large roads, and tall ...