Researchers find the missing river that helped build the pyramids
It's an important puzzle piece in showing how the pyramids were built.
Stay updated with breaking news from Red Pyramids. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
It's an important puzzle piece in showing how the pyramids were built.
The largest pyramid field in Egypt is clustered along a narrow desert strip, yet no convincing explanation as to why these pyramids are concentrated in this specific locality has been given so far. Here we use radar satellite imagery, in conjunction with geophysical data and deep soil coring, to investigate the subsurface structure and sedimentology in the Nile Valley next to these pyramids. We identify segments of a major extinct Nile branch, which we name The Ahramat Branch, running at the foothills of the Western Desert Plateau, where the majority of the pyramids lie. Many of the pyramids, ...