Goodbye, pre-packaged dinners — hello, full-fat dairy, red meat and olive oil. The US Department of Agriculture released its revamped dietary guidance — and brand-new food pyramid — for Americans on ...

Nearly 20 years ago, the Pyramid Rover recorded footage inside the Great Pyramid’s Queen’s Chamber northern shaft. Those images were limited by the technology of the time and exist only as ...

I don’t want to admit it, but I did spend a lot of money online this holiday shopping season. And unsurprisingly, some of those purchases didn’t meet my expectations. A photobook I bought was damaged ...

Brian Walshe, the 50-year-old Massachusetts man accused of killing his wife after uncovering an affair between her and a friend in Washington, D.C., returns to court Tuesday for the second day of his ...

Thinking of the barren, frigid interior of Alaska can send a chill down your spine — not just from the cold temperatures there, but from the tall tales of strange happenings many brush off as good ...

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Deep within the Pyramid of Unas, beyond its famous texts, torchlight reveals something astonishing: faint, ghostly images of King Khufu himself. Could the builder of the Great Pyramid have left his ...

The Neolithic Age may be something of a misnomer, falsely offering stone rather than perishable wood as the period’s primary building material, but its monumental architectures sure make a compelling ...

Megalithic tombs in Wietrzychowice, Poland. Credit: MOs810 / CC BY-SA 4.0 A set of massive, triangular burial mounds believed to be 5,500 years old has been uncovered. Dubbed the “Polish pyramids,” ...

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the effect of vertical scaling on fractal dimension (FD) estimation for failure surfaces in opencast mines to improve surface roughness characterization for slope ...

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