For more than a century, Egyptologists have dated the Great Pyramid to around 2580 BC, about 4,600 years ago. A controversial new study now claims the monument could be tens of thousands of years ...

I recently discussed in this space the dominance of French-bred horses in National Hunt racing, and suggested that moves towards earlier development of jumps horses in Britain and Ireland, encouraged ...

AS a charity, the NSPCC relies mainly on funding from the public, rather than the Government, to ensure we can be there to help children whenever they need us. Without this support our Childline team ...

Everyone knows about the pyramids of Giza — but they’re only the tip of the desert. Egypt’s true pyramid count goes far beyond the famous three, and many are almost completely unknown. In this video, ...

High above the Dead Sea, archaeologists are working through a collapsed stone pyramid that is about 2,200 years old and strangely hard to classify. From far away it looks like a plain mound, but up ...

21:28, Sun, Dec 21, 2025 Updated: 21:30, Sun, Dec 21, 2025 When most people picture a pyramid, their minds immediately drift to the golden sands of the Giza Plateau and the dominating structure of the ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

When we think of the Egyptian pyramids, we of course think of the Giza Plateau, the Great Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khafre and the pyramid of Menkaure. Many of us will also know about the Bent Pyramid ...

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