Wissenschaftler glauben, endlich Ägyptens Geheimnis zum Schneiden von Granit gelöst zu haben — und die Theorie wirft Fragen auf, die alles bisher Bekannte in Frage stellen. Historiker rätselten jahrzehntelang, wie die massiven Steinblöcke ohne moderne Maschinen so präzise bearbeitet wurden.
Die ägyptische Granitverarbeitung fasziniert Forscher seit Jahrzehnten. Vor allem die Frage, wie die Handwerker vor über 4000 Jahren mit Kupfer, Bronze, Sand und Stein unbearbeitbare Gesteine wie Granit so präzise bearbeiten konnten, beschäftigt die Wissenschaft bis heute. Die Steinoberflächen sind regelmäßig und glatt, teils spiegeln sie das Licht zurück. Einige Wissenschaftler sehen Ähnlichkeite…
Researchers just found something behind the Great Pyramid’s sealed door that shouldn’t exist. For decades, the mysterious blocking stone guarding a narrow shaft in the 4,500-year-old structure has frustrated archaeologists with its stubborn silence.
In the depths of the Great Pyramid of Giza, there is a sealed door that appears to have been built for no human visitor. It sits at the top of a passage only 20 centimeters wide, made from polished white stone fitted with two copper fixtures, and it remained closed for roughly 4,500 years. A robot located it in 1993. Researchers drilled through it during a live broadcast in 2002. In 2011, a camera…
Pyramids and other large ancient structures have been documented across China for centuries, though many remain little known outside the country. More than 200 pyramid-like structures have been
Pyramids and other large ancient structures have been documented across China for centuries, though many remain little known outside the country. More than 200 pyramid-like structures have been identified, mainly in the central plains and desert regions of Shaanxi Province. Access to some of these sites has been restricted, and they have not been subject to large-scale excavation. Farmers in some…
Archaeologists uncovered ancient Egyptian storage chambers hidden for 4,000 years inside Sahure’s pyramid at Abusir—after two centuries of surveys declared the site fully explored. When a joint Egyptian-German team returned in 2019 to stabilize crumbling walls, clearing rubble from a blocked passage revealed rooms no modern researcher had documented.
Geologists in Egypt have reported the discovery of a tomb approximately 4,000 years old near the pyramids outside Cairo. For generations, researchers believed the major pyramids of the Old Kingdom had been fully explored. In 2023, work at the pyramid complex of Sahure at Abusir revealed previously undocumented chambers, prompting questions about what else might remain undiscovered at well-studied…
A 10,000-year-old cache of artifacts has emerged from melting ice, and what researchers claim they found inside defies everything known about prehistoric migration. The frozen objects, preserved for millennia, were unearthed high in the mountains where no human settlement was ever believed to exist.
The Otzi discovery began in the late summer of 1991, when a German couple hiking in the Otztal Alps near the Italian-Austrian border noticed a brown shape half buried in a shallow gully. At first it looked like a recent accident victim, and police and rescue teams were called in. They chipped the body out of the ice with axes and a small jackhammer, not realizing the man had died more than 5,000 y…