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Workers at the Egyptian port city of Alexandria have recovered 22 massive stone blocks that were used thousands of years ago ...
A team from the French National Center for Scientific Research recently lifted 22 massive stone blocks from the Lighthouse of ...
At the edge of the Mediterranean, off the coast of modern-day Alexandria, an international team has recovered 22 immense ...
After centuries beneath the waves, 22 massive stone blocks from the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria have been recovered from ...
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The world of the Ancient Egyptians hold many secrets. How did they build the pyramids? How did they carve its blocks out of ...
It’s located in a stone quarry at Baalbek, site of the ancient Heliopolis in Lebanon. Similar stone blocks measuring up to 20 meters (65 feet) in length and a diameter of 4 x 4 meters (13 x 13 ...
Instead of sliding blocks on a ramp, ancient Egyptians could have rolled the massive bricks ... Each massive stone was on average about 1.3 by 1.3 by 0.7 meters and weighed 2,500 kilograms ...
The largest stone building block ever carved by human hands has been found by German archeologists. The stone, which could be more than 2,000 years old, was found in a quarry in Baalbek, Lebanon.
The ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids may have been able to move massive stone blocks across the desert by wetting the sand in front of a contraption built to pull the heavy objects ...
Archaeologists unearthed roughly 1,500 decorated stone blocks that once made up part of Hatshepsut's valley temple. Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Images Ancient Egypt was primarily ruled by men, with ...
To understand the long-term effects of military conflict on ancient structures, a team of researchers in England headed to a gun range and fired .22-caliber rifles at blocks of stone, Melissa ...