aArchaeologists believe they have solved the mystery behind one of the wonders of the world. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington have discovered that the pyramids of Egypt, including the pyramids of Giza, may have been built along an abandoned branch of the Nile River.
About 4,700 years after the pyramids were built, studies suggest that a 64-kilometre-long lost branch of the Nile River was used to transport building materials for the structures, which took a thousand years to complete, which may explain why the pyramids are so good. It is now a narrow, uninhabited strip of the Sahara Desert.
“Many of us who are interested in ancient Egypt know that the Egyptians must have used a stream to build their enormous monuments, such as the pyramids and valley temples, but no one was sure of the location, shape, size or proximity of this stream.” “The navigable highway reaches the actual site of the pyramids,” said Iman Ghoneim, of the University of North Carolina, quoted by The Independent.
Along these lines, the researcher and her colleagues studied satellite images to determine the location of a canal that might have passed through the base of the Sahara Desert. They also used geophysical surveys to confirm the presence of ancient river and channel sediments beneath the surface of the modern Earth.
Scientists hypothesized that the accumulation of sand raised by winds and the great drought that began about 4,200 years ago could explain the migration of this branch of the river to the east and its eventual siltation.
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