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Some of the new Nazca designs discovered by AI. Source: PNAS.
25 SEP 2024 · 2 MIN

AI search of Nazca Plain Doubles the Number of Known Geoglyphs

The Nazca geoglyphs are an enduring puzzle. We do not really understand why these ancient peoples in the south of what is now Peru traced enormous patterns on the barren plains of…
The Beast of Set resembles an aardvark, but also a dog, a lion, a jackal and yet has features of none of these. What could it be? Source: A. Parrot / Public Domain.
26 AUG 2024 · 5 MIN

The Beast of Set, the Unknown Creature at the Heart of Ancient Egypt

The Egyptian pantheon of gods is among the most familiar to the modern world. Although perhaps not as well known as the gods of Hinduism, or the ancient Greek pantheon and their…