You can’t land there! Moment paraglider swoops over the top of the Pyramids and captures stunning aerial footage of the Sphinx Yanis Terzis, 35, filmed himself gliding over famous Egyptian pyramids in Cairo Footage shows him casually zooming through air towards a giant pyramid He then swerves over towards the […]
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Multiple asteroids will pass close by Earth in the next few weeks — and one that passed on Friday was around the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, with a diameter of 525 feet. On Friday, Asteroid 2021 SM3 passed within 3.5 million miles of Earth, according to […]
Hundreds of stone monuments scattered across northwestern Saudi Arabia may represent the oldest known ritual site on Earth. Researchers studying mustatils, courtyards made from sandstone blocks, date them to about 7,000 years ago, making them millennia older than Stonehenge or the Pyramids at Giza. Surveying the region by helicopter, the […]
The ancient Maya city of Tikal may have been home to foreigners from central Mexico long before archaeologists expected. traumlichtfabrik/Getty Images By Lizzie WadeApr. 8, 2021 , 12:20 PM The 16th of January 378 C.E. marked a turning point in ancient Maya history. On that day, foreigners arrived in the […]
Egypt held a spectacular parade to transport 22 mummies of its most famous pharaohs from central Cairo to their new resting place at a museum. The ceremony snaked along the Nile corniche from the Egyptian Museum overlooking Tahrir Square to the newly opened National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, […]
First humans who crossed the Bering Strait some 15,000 years ago had indigenous Australian DNA that is now found in the bloodline of South America tribes, study finds Previous work found ancient Australian DNA in modern-day Amazonians However, a new study finds the ancestral DN runs deeper in South America A genetical […]
(CNN) — Images of people frolicking in snowy landscapes and sliding down icy mountains are not unusual, but one crucial thing made these snaps stand out. They’re shot in Egypt. Situated on the fringes of the arid, sandy Sahara desert, the Middle Eastern country rarely experiences rainfall, let alone snow. […]
The blockage of the Suez canal by the beached Ever Given container ship has prompted fresh international efforts to find an alternative to the world’s most important shipping corridor. UN officials are understood to be reviewing plans to construct a new canal along the Egypt-Israel border, having previously dismissed ideas […]