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Restored by Pharaoh?: Study Questions the "Certainties" of the Pyramids of Egypt

A new and controversial study led by the Italian engineer Alberto Donini, of the University of Bologna (Italy), suggests that the Great Pyramid of Giza could be much older than it is believed, with its construction going back to between 20 000 and 40 000 years ago, instead of the 4 600 years that Egyptologists usually calculate. For more than a century, the Great Pyramid has been attributed to Pharaoh Keops of the Fourth Egyptian Dynasty. Howeve…
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The analysis of erosion patterns has led some researchers to propose a date of construction as remote as 22916 BC, a proposal as striking as problematic. However, the fact that an idea is fascinating does not automatically make it correct. A recent study, as controversial as it is provocative, argues [...]

It is often recalled that Cleopatra is temporally closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the tomb of Pharaoh Kheops, erected around 2600 B.C.E. Yet, for some, this official date is not long enough. A new study, which [...]

A new and controversial study led by the Italian engineer Alberto Donini, of the University of Bologna (Italy), suggests that the Great Pyramid of Giza could be much older than it is believed, with its construction going back to between 20 000 and 40 000 years ago, instead of the 4 600 years that Egyptologists usually calculate. For more than a century, the Great Pyramid has been attributed to Pharaoh Keops of the Fourth Egyptian Dynasty. Howeve…

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