A recent exhibition showcased India’s ancient board games, but their archaeological evidence has also been found globally. It ...

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Fresh radar scans on the Giza Plateau have revealed a buried “anomaly” that is forcing Egyptologists to rethink how people ...

Ground-penetrating radar has helped archeologists identify buried wonders below the surface. Now, a study from Japanese and Egyptian researchers reveals the discovery of an L-shaped structure along ...

WATG is delighted to share an update on their work with the Egyptian government to lead an internationally significant master-planning initiative for the Giza Pyramids region. This project represents ...

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An international team of archaeologists has stumbled upon a mysterious L-shaped structure buried within a cemetery adjacent to the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Giza. The structure is 4,500 years and ...

Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional infrared space observatory, and the James Webb Space ...

After more than two decades of fan theories, wild speculation, and heated Reddit debates, Masahiro Ito has finally decided to throw us all a bone. The legendary art director behind Silent Hill 2’s ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately ...