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The curse of Tutankhamun is one of the most durable stories in popular history. Nearly everyone knows the shape of it: archaeologists disturbed a pharaoh's rest, and one after…
For most of recorded history, ancient Egypt was legible only in fragments. Its monuments, tombs and papyri were covered in writing, and the knowledge of how to read that writing…
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The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the largest and most recognizable monuments on Earth: a limestone figure with the body of a lion and a human head,…
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Ancient Egypt gets filed in most people's heads as a single block of time. Pyramids, mummies, hieroglyphs, gold masks, Cleopatra. All of it feels like it belongs together, roughly…
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The mystery of how the pyramids were built has attracted more nonsense than almost any question in archaeology. But underneath the noise sits a real and specific engineering problem…