It was dark and silent, with a chill in the air, as an army of police vehicles blue-lighted their way through the city, headed for one destination. If you told me at 6.20am that Merseyside Police were ...

A team of Italian scientists stunned the world last March when they announced the discovery of a vast underground complex stretching nearly 3,500 feet beneath Egypt’s Giza Plateau, connecting chambers ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 7,000-year-old ostrich egg from a Nubian burial and were stunned to find intricate engravings covering its surface—images that looked strikingly like the Pyramids of Giza, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Pyramid of Menkaure, one of the three famous ...

Imagine, for a brief moment, that you are a student athlete playing on a Division 1 volleyball team. As part of your regular season, your team is competing against Cal State Long Beach on its home ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

Abstract: Point cloud completion recovers the complete point clouds from partial ones, providing numerous point cloud information for downstream tasks such as 3-D reconstruction and target detection.

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Each of these nine black plastic ...

Ancient civilisations—Egyptian, Mayan, Mesopotamian, Celtic (take your pick!)—recognised and celebrated their connectedness with nature. After all, they depended on their natural environments for ...

How a centuries-old math puzzle helped us see inside the human brain. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, uncovers the ...