Pyramids

Lock up your mugs and chain down your slags, for something proper naughty is on the horizon. Danny Dyer, the UK’s surliest and most unlikely national treasure, is making another film with Nick Love.They said it wouldn’t happen. They said it couldn’t happen. They definitely thought it shouldn’t happen. But despite everything, here it is: next month, Dyer and Love will start production on a film called Marching Powder.Billed as a “thrilling dark comedy”, Marching Powder does have a premise, though it reads a bit like…

And now, some history: On July 21, 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte pointed at some pyramids. It was probably a cool moment once you put aside the imperialism and the smell of 20,000 French soldiers marching through a desert in wool pants. “40 centuries look down upon you,” Napoleon shouted, gesturing at the world’s most instantly recognizable triangles with dead guys inside them. Later that day, he led his men to war in what historians would remember as the Battle of the Pyramids. Historians are dramatic, though. The “Battle of…

One week after Live Nation insisted that Travis Scott’s Utopia concert at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt had not been canceled — despite numerous local news outlets reporting otherwise — Live Nation Middle East has confirmed that the July 28 show is, in fact, canceled.  “We regret to inform you that the UTOPIA show, originally scheduled for July 28th at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt is cancelled,” the concert promoter said in a statement on Twitter. “Unfortunately, despite highest efforts, complex production issues…

Live Nation Middle East asserted Tuesday that “no changes” had been made to Travis Scott’s upcoming concert at the Egyptian pyramids despite reports that officials in in the country had canceled the hip-hop star’s permit to perform there.“PSA There have been no changes to Travis Scott’s show in Egypt; any reports to the contrary are false. We can’t wait to celebrate ‘Utopia’ with you in Egypt,” the concert promoter and ticketing service Ticketsmarche said in a Tuesday tweet. 🚨PSA 🚨There have been no changes to…

Travis Scott will drop his latest album in the Egyptian desert. Over the weekend, the “Sicko Mode” rapper returned to Instagram for the first time since December 2022 to announce his album, “Utopia.” In several cryptic posts shared on Instagram on Sunday, Scott teased brand-new instrumentals and videos from his time working in Malibu, Houston and Miraval, France. Then he dropped two photos announcing his Egypt livestream event. “Utopia is wherever you are,” read a poster. “Live stream transmitting from Egypt The…

Few records in the 21st century have divided a band’s fans as much as Daft Punk’s fourth studio album, Random Access Memories. While the reviews were largely positive, a significant swathe of the band’s fanbase wondered why they had swapped techno for soft rock. It took me years to come to peace with this beguiling, if confounding, album, until one day the refracted light came on and the pre-decimal penny dropped: Random Access Memories was the 21st century Dark Side of the Moon. And the 10th anniversary reissue of RAM,…

Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Python Programming, and DemographicsCreate dynamic population pyramids through the year 2100 by country, age, sex, and year with the Census Data API, Python, and Tableau PublicCrowd of people. On November 15, 2022, the United Nations reported that the population of the world had reached 8 billion.. Photo by San Fermin Pamplona: https://www.pexels.com/photo/bird-s-eye-view-of-group-of-people-1299086/While there are many sources of population data, the United States Census Bureau keeps…

Archaeologists recently discovered a stone age structure they believe to be older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids found in Giza. The archaeologists believe the structure, which they say is a roundel, was built around 7,000 years ago. They’re also hopeful that research into the structure could provide more information about these ancient and mysterious structures. Roundels, like the mysterious stone age structure discovered in Prague recently, were constructed between the years of 4600 to 4900 BC.…

Archaeologists digging near Prague have discovered the remains of a Stone Age structure that's older than Stonehenge and even the Egyptian pyramids: an enigmatic complex known as a roundel.Nearly 7,000 years ago during the late Neolithic, or New Stone Age, a local farming community may have gathered in this circular building, although its true purpose is unknown.The excavated roundel is large – about 180 feet (55 meters) in diameter, or about as long as the Leaning Tower of Pisa is tall, Radio Prague International…

Artist's reconstruction of the now defunct Khufu branch of the Nile River. Credit: Alex Boersma/Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2202530119 A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in France, working with a colleague from China and another two from Egypt, has found evidence that shows the Khufu branch of the Nile River once ran so close to Giza that it could have…