Seeing Pyramids
Egypt

Seeing Pyramids



 Infrared images of Egypt from a satellites orbiting some 700 kilometers above the earth have revealed thousands of archaeological sites including the discovering of 17 lost pyramids. A year long study has been done by researchers from the University of Alabama which claims to have found more than 1000 tombs and 3000 archaeological sites.




- Hawass Says That Bbc Broke Msa Regulations
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) I was very pleased to be involved with this project, which will be aired in a television program called Egypt’s Lost Cities. Unfortunately, however, an inaccurate article about it was prematurely released, even before the...

- Egyptian Pyramids Found By Infra-red Satellite Images
BBC News (Francis Cronin) Thanks to Brian Donovan for this link. More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images which show up underground buildings. Initial excavations have already confirmed some...

- Sarah And The Satellites
Lost Egypt blog Here’s a slide show that goes through the process used by our project advisor Sarah Parcak, to find archaeological sites in ancient Egypt. We’ll talk about this process in Lost Egypt as well. You can hear Sarah talk about how she uses...

- New Sites In Egypt Spotted From Space
http://www.livescience.com/history/070605_satellite_egypt2.html More on Sarah Parcak's work with satellite images of Egypt: "Satellites hovering above Egypt have zoomed in on a 1,600-year-old metropolis, archaeologists say. Images captured from space...

- Seeing Pyramids Through Clumsy Protocol
Here we have an article from Dr. Hawass on the recent BBC article on infrared satellite images which were advertised as showing seventeen unexcavated pyramids and thousands of archaeological sites. Dr. Hawass is displeased as the article went out without...



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