[guide.chat] news satelite infrared finds more egyptian pyramids
- From: vanessa <qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:54:35 +0100
If only Howard Carter had access to satellite imagery, maybe he would have
discovered more than just King Tut?s tomb. Fortunately, Google Earth means that
anyone can examine the planet for last treasures. Including Angela Micol, a
satellite archaeology researcher who thinks she has uncovered previously
undiscovered ancient pyramids, hiding in plain sight in Egypt.
Midol, who lives in North Carolina, came across two sites about 150 kilometres
apart from each other that bear all the hallmarks of ancient pyramid sites. The
first is about 42.6 metres wide with a flat top, indicating that erosion has
whittled away at its pointed tip. Three other mounds extend out from it, almost
like a tail. If that arrangement sounds familiar, it?s much like how the famous
pyramids at Giza are arranged.
Consider, too, that the site is two miles east of Dimai, an ancient city that
is thought to have been founded by Ptolemy II all the way back around third
century BC. And that the constructs appear to be built from mudbrick and stone
? just like the ruins of that city.
The other site, 12 miles from the city Abu Sidhum near the Nile ? where all
Egyptian pyramids are located ? has four mounds with triangular tops. Two are
bigger and two are smaller, 76.2 feet wide and 30.48 feet wide respectively.
From the looks of it, the four buildings have been very deliberately arranged,
very similarly to a nearby triangle-shaped plateau.
It?s easy to read too much into Google Earth sightings, and people do it all
the time. But in this case, egyptologist and pyramid expert Nabil Selim has
confirmed that these may well be the real thing. Not even one percent of
ancient Egypt has been excavated. And this isn?t the first time a little
virtual digging has recovered lost treasures in Egypt. Last year, egyptologist
and UAB professor Sarah Parcak announced that she found 17 pyramids, 3,100
ancient settlements, and upwards of 1,000 tombs with the aid of infrared
satellite images. That?s a lot of mummies.
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