AI slop is littering your feed and spreading misinformation, so WIRED’s here to set the record straight. Join Egyptologist Professor Laurel Bestock as we fact check the internet, egyptology edition.

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*It was the aliens!* Or was it? Egyptologist Professor Laurel Bestock rejoins WIRED to break down five discoveries that tell us exactly how the Egyptian pyramids were built; from the Giza quarry to The Diary of Merer, Laurel paints a vivid picture of just how the ancient pyramids were built from the ground up.

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00:00 – The truth about the pyramids
00:21 – The Giza quarry
01:54 – The ramp
04:49 – The Lost City
07:17 – The Diary of Merer
09:17 – The early pyramids

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Former FBI Special Agent and member of the original FBI elite Art Crime Team Geoffrey Kelly joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning heist questions. How do you rob The Louvre in broad daylight? Is it true that Picasso once stole the Mona Lisa? Why don’t people do bank heists anymore? Answers to these questions and many more await on Heist Support.

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00:00 – Heist Support
00:11 – Frickin’ laser beams.
00:56 – Living rent-free in a federal database
01:18 – Mona Less-a by Lenny da Vinky
02:46 – Ben Affleck did his research
03:40 – Hang it in the Louvre
04:58 – For the culture, one masterpiece at a time
06:24 – Now you see me: now you don’t
07:13 – The perfect heist
08:23 – Ocean’s 11, but make it believable
09:01 – Picasso stole the Mona Lisa?
09:59 – Underground banking
10:48 – $150M hiding in plain sight
11:49 – Priceless ❌ Worthless ✅
13:27 – Pose for the archives
15:26 – $1 BILLION with a 🅱️
17:28 – Bank heists are so 90s
18:01 – Learning to be a criminal
19:43 – Curated by Monet, framed by Goering, seized by the FBI
21:28 – Mint condition, questionable acquisition
22:02 – Funded by grand larceny
23:09 – I got loyalty, got royalty, got digital trails inside my DNA
24:11 – Lukewarm on the trail

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