To be fair, Kulthum was as close to royalty as a singer could get in a culture where women in the arts were still rare.

When ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, it kicked off an AI boom that hasn't stopped since and showed how powerful natural-language tools could be. Since then, we've seen chatbots, copilots and AI agents ...

The story of the highly skilled workers who helped build Egypt’s Great Pyramid is emerging from a papyrus cache unearthed at the world’s oldest harbor On a summer afternoon around 4,600 years ago, ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt at ...

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The ongoing strike at the Louvre has become a major test of the museum's management. Workers are striking over understaffing and safety concerns, especially after a $102 million jewel heist exposed ...

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Abstract: Multi-scale features are crucial in encoding objects with varying scales in vision tasks. The classic top-down and bottom-up feature pyramid networks are a common strategy for multi-scale ...

Rising just over 60 meters, the Menkaure Pyramid is the youngest of the Giza pyramids and unique for its extensive use of Aswan granite, which has fueled decades of debate about its construction and ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest and sole surviving Wonder of the Ancient World, has attracted the interest of philosophers, savants, and travelers for at least four millennia. Some of this ...

The classical account of the discovery of the upper chambers inside the Great Pyramid at Giza is well known. In the ninth century an Arab governor of Cairo, known as the Caliph al Ma’mun, decided to ...