Why did this never occur to them, when they were so meticulous in other matters to consider all possible views? One might conjecture that in order to compete with the increasingly dominant Christian religion, they needed a systematic doctrine of the afterlife, and this was provided by ...
Early cultures used meteorites to craft weapons and jewelry long before anyone knew how to extract iron from ore.
The perfect right angles of the pyramid were likely achieved using either a set square, of which ancient specimens are preserved, or using a ‘Pythagorean’ triangle, which was known to the Egyptians before the Greeks. They also used specialized surveying tools called themerkhet(basically a plumb...