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  1. Sheinbaum says ‘stricter checks’ needed after pyramid shooting

    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the deadly attack at the Pyramids of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was an isolated incident, but that authorities need to implement ‘stricter checks’ to prevent something similar from happening again. #mexico #claudiasheinbaum #pyramids #teotihuacan #violence #gunviolence #News #Reuters #Newsfeed Read the story here: 👉 Subscribe: Keep up with the latest news from…

    fllics.com/en/video/sheinbaum-

  2. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🚀🎨 Filmmakers Michel and Olivier Gondry created a retro-futuristic short where the #Louvre’s #Pyramid blasts off and lands on the #moon.

    Using computer #graphics from analog technologies, the brothers mix #papercraft and #synthwave hues to create a surreal night at the #museum featuring works by #DaVinci and #Vermeer.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/louvre-moon-lo

    #animation #art #history #france #paintings #pyramids #rockets #space #travel #tksst #video

  3. ⚒️⛰️ What if the Great Pyramids weren't just built from the ground up, but were actually carved out of the #Earth?

    New research into the #Giza Plateau reveals that ancient builders used natural hills as a massive internal core, essentially "sculpting" part of the #pyramids directly from the landscape to save time and labor.

    👉 openculture.com/2026/02/were-t

    #history #archaeology #egypt #engineering #science #education

  4. #TimeTravelingGhost EP 5 Part 60: Jurassic Era

    1/15/26 #TimeTravelAuthors The cost of time travel #Wss366 pyramid #MastoPrompt aromatic

    I kicked the detritus near the edge of the cave, then sat down with my legs dangling over the edge. An #aromatic breeze, reminiscent of ferns and conifers, rose from below, masking the odor of guano.

    "If we want to learn what the rabbits are up to, we're going to have to go out there," I said, pointing to the surreal #pyramids.

    “Can you fly that far? You'd be easy pickings out there on the water.”

    “Yeah, I can’t see myself building a raft and paddling across open water. I don’t suppose we could just time-travel over there? We don’t seem limited spacially when doing it. And it doesn’t seem as taxing as dematerialisation.”

    “All we can do is try.”

    #TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #NMTTA

  5. Here's a quick little chapter catching up with the Fartmeister the day after the Flatulenz Fairy Princess Tremorroid Titiana stole his enchanted jock strap. He's understandably unhappy. Flackfizer Kankersaur and Kommandant Whiff round out the cast: royalroad.com/fiction/114416/s

    #newchapter #newchapterinlife #newchapterbegins #newchaptervibes #fart #farts #farting #book #books #booking #dinosaur #raptor #fartcano #hometheater #vcr #vhs #videotape #blecch #pyramid #pyramids #zine #zines #zinemaking

  6. Unfancied Pyramids FC of Egypt were crowned African champions on Sunday, but their Croatian coach Krunoslav Jurcic said they still faced a struggle to assert themselves in their own country. japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/0 #soccer #pyramids #cairo #cafchampionsleague #krunoslavjurcic

  7. How were #pyramids built in ancient #Egypt, lifting #300kgstones?
    Engineers and geologists introduced a fresh theory suggesting that a #HydraulicLiftSystem might have been used to float the heavy stones up the middle of Egypt's oldest pyramid using #storedwater.
    Constructing large pyramids might have involved various techniques such as #ramps, #cranes, #winches, #togglelifts, #hoists, #pivots or a #mix.
    livemint.com/science/news/how-

  8. The idea that the #Joseph of the Old Testament was #Imhotep is a mixture of the usual "Biblical history" pseudo-historical distortion, with a bit of crossover appeal to the lunatic fringe "Alternative" #Egyptology nuts. It's a kind of anti-intellectual, anti-historical supermarket, with something for everyone.

    Jason Colavito has traced the historiography of the connection between #pyramids and Joseph's grain silos to the late antiquity and early medieval writers Julius Honorius and Gregory of Tours. Honorius' Cosmographia, probably written in the 4th or 5th century CE, specifically mentioned that the pyramids were Joseph's granaries, whereas Gregory's 6th century History of the Franks alluded to the same idea, but without using the word "pyramid".

    #RationalWiki #Bible #oldtestament #pseudohistory
    rationalwiki.org/wiki/Joseph_w

  9. This is deeply wrong, but it’s an interesting kind of wrong.

    Our perception of the past telescopes: there’s the recent past, what we remember; the middle past, what our parents and grandparents remember; the long past, out of living memory but still preserved in familiar stories; and everything else. As I’ve said before, a lot of Americans’ idea of human #history seems to go roughly as follows:

    1. #Cavemen.
    2. #Pyramids.
    3. #Jesus.
    4. Robin Hood and King Arthur.
    5. #Columbus and #pirates.
    6. #Pilgrims and George Washington.
    7. #Cowboys.
    8. World War Two. (One must have happened somewhere?)
    9. #Hippies and #Vietnam.
    10. The real world begins with the momentous event of my birth.

    Nor is this uniquely an American problem—some places have better educational systems than others, but I think people everywhere hold similar mythologized versions of world events leading uniquely and inevitably to their own central place in the world.

    So here’s an extreme version of the same phenomenon applied to natural history. Most reasonably educated people have some idea that not all prehistoric animals lived at the same time (although poor #Dimetrodon is forever going to be mixed in with #dinosaurs) but they do tend to lump enormous spans of time together: #mammoths and #sabertooths, before that all dinosaurs all at once, and before that … I dunno … jellyfish or something.

    #Creationists, of course, turn it up to 11.

  10. "The #pyramids of ancient #Egypt are said to have shone brilliantly in the sun. Surfaces of polished limestone would not only have reflected diffusely in all directions, but would also likely have produced #specular reflections in particular directions. [...] On a particular day and time when the sun was properly situated, an observer stationed at a distant site would have seen a momentary flash as the sun's reflection moved across the face of the pyramid": arxiv.org/abs/2104.02642

  11. "The #pyramids of ancient #Egypt are said to have shone brilliantly in the sun. Surfaces of polished limestone would not only have reflected diffusely in all directions, but would also likely have produced #specular reflections in particular directions. [...] On a particular day and time when the sun was properly situated, an observer stationed at a distant site would have seen a momentary flash as the sun's reflection moved across the face of the pyramid": arxiv.org/abs/2104.02642

  12. "The #pyramids of ancient #Egypt are said to have shone brilliantly in the sun. Surfaces of polished limestone would not only have reflected diffusely in all directions, but would also likely have produced #specular reflections in particular directions. [...] On a particular day and time when the sun was properly situated, an observer stationed at a distant site would have seen a momentary flash as the sun's reflection moved across the face of the pyramid": arxiv.org/abs/2104.02642

  13. "The #pyramids of ancient #Egypt are said to have shone brilliantly in the sun. Surfaces of polished limestone would not only have reflected diffusely in all directions, but would also likely have produced #specular reflections in particular directions. [...] On a particular day and time when the sun was properly situated, an observer stationed at a distant site would have seen a momentary flash as the sun's reflection moved across the face of the pyramid": arxiv.org/abs/2104.02642

  14. "The #pyramids of ancient #Egypt are said to have shone brilliantly in the sun. Surfaces of polished limestone would not only have reflected diffusely in all directions, but would also likely have produced #specular reflections in particular directions. [...] On a particular day and time when the sun was properly situated, an observer stationed at a distant site would have seen a momentary flash as the sun's reflection moved across the face of the pyramid": arxiv.org/abs/2104.02642