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Archaeologists have discovered mysterious structures hidden below the surface near Egypt’s Great Pyramid that could be an unknown tomb built 4,500 years ago.

The team used ground-penetrating radar on Giza’s Western Cemetery, uncovering an L-shaped anomaly that appeared as an entranceway to a chamber below.

The burial ground holds the remains of King Khufu, who commissioned the iconic pyramid, his family members and high-ranking officials, suggesting another elite tomb could be hiding beneath the sands.

The L-shaped structure is up to six feet below the surface and filled with sand, which researchers speculated was intentionally done after it was constructed to block the entrance to the ‘chamber’ nearly 30 more feet below.

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The four parties involved in talks on forming a new, right-wing government in the Netherlands enter the final day of negotiations on Wednesday positive that they will be able to finalise a deal before the midnight deadline.

Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right PVV, left Tuesday’s talks at around 1 am saying that while “we still have work to do”, “I do not see things going wrong anymore.”

VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz, who has been silent in recent days, told reporters that “you can see we all look relieved” while Caroline van der Plas, from pro-countryside party BBB, said much credit needed to be given to Wilders and “this is not going to go wrong”.

NSC leader Pieter Omtzigt was also positive, saying the four parties are a “hair’s breadth” from an agreement. “We have found the basis for an alliance and we have full confidence in it,” he said. The country “needs a new government”, he told reporters.

The talks will resume at 10 am.

No details of the agreement have yet been published and it is unclear if the parties have now reached agreement on government finances, which had proved to be a main stumbling block.

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A three year hunt for patterns hidden in the roars, sighs, and other noises made by Indonesia‘s orangutans has discovered ‘a full spectrum’ of complex vocalizations.

The breakthrough comes hot on the heels of other recent discoveries further revealing the depth of the great ape’s intelligence — including one orangutan’s practice of healing its own injuries with a self-prepared medicinal herb.

The research team reinforced their analysis by testing artificial intelligence (AI) detection methods against the painstaking work of biologists and bioacoustics scientists, employing only their trained ears, intellects and measurement tools.   

The Cornell University-led team pooled together a dataset of 117 recorded ‘long calls’ made by 13 males of one particular species, the Bornean orangutan, employing 46 acoustic measurements on 1,033 distinct pulses detected within those calls.

‘These features would seem to greatly boost the potential complexity of this signal,’ they wrote, suggesting humanity might soon know what the great apes are saying. 

A Cornell-led team pooled together a dataset of 117 recorded ‘long calls’ made by 13 male orangutans – deploying 46 acoustic measurements on 1,033 pulses detected within the calls. The results appear to show higher ‘potential complexity’ in ape calls than previously realized

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