ARCHITECTURE

One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza, has a serious structural flaw, engineer Glen Dash and his team has revealed. The gigantic structure, built some 4,500 years ago, has a slightly elongated west side compared to its east side. This means the base of the pyramid is not a perfect square as previously known.

Australian archaeologist Damian Evans attached a Lidar scanning system to helicopter skids and peered beneath the 734 square miles of Angkor Wat’s dense rainforest cover to map the topography of the ground. He found dozens of new sites previously unknown to archaeologists.

Google Earth and drones have helped in unearthing a massive ancient monument within the “lost city” of Petra in Jordan. It lay hidden in plain sight under the sand for thousands of years. The monument is twice as large as an Olympic-size swimming pool and nearly as long.

Researchers have revealed that the Neolithic Stonehenge was not difficult to build. Mounting the huge stones on a sycamore sleigh and dragging it along timbers required far less effort.