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Claims that a second, massive Sphinx statue lies buried beneath the sands of Egypt’s Giza Plateau have gone viral, drawing tens of millions of views across social media and tabloid headlines. The ...

Archaeologists working across the Americas and Southeast Asia are finding that airborne laser scanning, known as LiDAR, is detecting ancient road networks, pyramids, and urban grids that decades of ...

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Ever since humans began building, they’ve been building up. Throughout the millennia, our constructions have reached higher and higher into the sky, spurred by various motivations: religion, democracy ...