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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Possible pyramids in Egypt discovered using images from Google Earth

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Google Earth could be the tool of a new historical discovery. As a researcher, an expert in this type of satellite images, Google's service complexes show two unknown pyramids in Egypt.
The Internet giant images show several mounds whose form suggests that it could try to pyramids and were discovered by Angela Micol who has over 10 years doing archaeological research by satellite.
One of the sites shows a formation three times larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza with a width of about 189 meters, depending on the Discovery Channel website. Meanwhile, another resort is a little smaller but still significant at 76 meters, still on the Great Pyramid.
The researcher points out that these sites were found using satellite images of Google Earth and would not have been discovered so far by other researchers as expert Egyptologist and pyramid Nabil Selim. What is missing now is the next step obviously includes a field study of those places.
This is not the first time that archeology uses Google Earth to find new places. An example is the Australian scientist, David Kennedy, University of Western Australia, who identified 1977 sites as potential archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia through this tool.