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'UFO Phil' Wants to Put a Pyramid on Pikes Peak

Phil Hill is a man with a dream -- a big dream. Maybe even an impossible dream. But this Don Quixote of the ET set is asking the U.S. government to allow him to build a giant pyramid on top of Pikes Peak in Colorado -- to be used by both humans and aliens. Lots of questions spring to mind: Who exactly is this guy? Why...

Todd Rundgren's Utopia Found: The Great Pyramid of Massachusetts

Those great stage sets of the mid-1970s took arena rock where it had never gone before. Pink Floyd delighted its fans with a giant, inflatable pig. The Rolling Stones had a six-pointed "lotus petal" stage that opened to reveal the entire band. And the Electric Light Orchestra had its own onstage spaceship. That era...

Robot Explorer Set to Reveal Great Pyramid's Secrets

(Aug. 17) -- Archaeologists attempting to unlock the secrets of the Great Pyramid of Giza have a new helper: a drill- and camera-toting robot designed to peer into the magnificent structure's unexplored nooks and crannies. It's hoped that this high-tech explorer -- built by researchers at England's Leeds University,...

Workers' Tombs Found Near Egypt's Pyramids

CAIRO (Jan. 10) - Egyptian archaeologists discovered a new set of tombs belonging to the workers who built the great pyramids, shedding light on how the laborers lived and ate more than 4,000 years ago, the antiquities department said Sunday. The thousands of men who built the last remaining wonder of the ancient world...

Background on pyramid

A pyramid (from ) is a structure whose shape is roughly that of a pyramid in the geometric sense; that is, its outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single point at the top.

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