Lost Egyptian Pyramids Discovered Thanks To Space Age Technology

vansau

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Lost Egyptian Pyramids Discovered Thanks To Space Age Technology



Move over, Indiana Jones. There's a new type of crazy archaeology in town.

There's a lot of cool stuff going on up in space these days. Over the past few months, it's been revealed that <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107476-NASA-Contemplating-Blowing-Up-International-Space-Station>NASA wants to add inflatable expansions to the International Space Station, <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108524-NASA-Wants-to-Shoot-Lasers-at-Space-Trash>lasers are (hopefully) going to be used to vaporize space trash, <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109802-DARPA-Solicits-Ideas-for-Sustainable-Long-Term-Space-Travel>DARPA is investigating long-term space travel, and - oh, yeah - at least one astronaut <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109036-Astronaut-Gives-Out-Of-This-World-Space-Concert>likes to give neato zero-g flute performances. Now, on top of all this other stuff, it turns out that satellites in orbit are being used to find underground pyramids, tombs, and cities.

It turns out that satellite imagery using infrared technology has been used to detect seventeen lost pyramids, as well as "more than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements". Since the images were created and studied, initial excavations have begun and confirmed the existence of some of the buildings, including two pyramids (one of which is highlighted in the photo here).

This is the culmination of a project led by Dr. Sarah Parcak, an Egyptologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Speaking to the BBC, Parcak was understandably overjoyed about the discoveries:

"We were very intensely doing this research for over a year. I could see the data as it was emerging, but for me the 'Aha!' moment was when I could step back and look at everything that we'd found and I couldn't believe we could locate so many sites all over Egypt.

"To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist," she said.

It turns out that Egyptian authorities plan to use the technology in the future, especially around the Nile River, where thousands of years of silt have covered settlements that were lost and forgotten about long ago.

Parcak's project, and her subsequent journey to validate the infrared images' findings, is documented in the upcoming BBC documentary <a href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011pwms>Egypt's Lost Cities, which will air this coming Monday, May 30th. Now that we're using satellites to discover lost archaeological sites, how much do you want to bet we're going to find a Stargate buried in the sands?

Source: <a href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13522957>BBC

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Twilight_guy

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I read the title and immediately though "stargate?"

That's interesting. I wonder what else they can find using those satellites? I'm sure there is more buried treasure then a few pyramids around.

EDIT: I see you have edited the title at least twice now... funny how confusing English can be (especially to Sci-fi nerds).
 

Professor M

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vansau said:
So noted.
This is better, but somehow I can still only read it as being something about ancient Egyptians using space age technology... difficult wording I suppose
 

blankedboy

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Ooh yay. This is exactly what we kinda ran out of awhile back. Now we just need to solve the oil problem :>
 

Kenjitsuka

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"It turns out that satellite imagery using infrared technology has been used to detect seventeen lost pyramids, as well as "more than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements"."

Holy moly, that's literally four tons of amazing finds!
Now locate Shan Ghri La and Atlantis, chop chop!
 

ShadowsofHope

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Just hope we don't find the Ark buried somewhere in Africa. Humanity isn't exactly ready for plasma weapon wars yet..
 

flaviok79

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Interesting to see how a mere quasi-square feature in the image is pointed out as an obvious pyramid, and some much more obvious pyramids and "the face" in pictures of Mars are always "image artifacts" or "tricks of light and shadow". Great article, though.
 

Souplex

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NO! Anything having to do with ancient Egypt can't end well.
Best case scenario we all end up playing a terrible card game, worst case scenario it kills us all.
There's a reason this stuff was buried.
 

Charli

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Souplex said:
NO! Anything having to do with ancient Egypt can't end well.
Best case scenario we all end up playing a terrible card game, worst case scenario it kills us all.
There's a reason this stuff was buried.
I lol'd.


So...taking bets on the stargate, do I hear a dollar? 2! 2 dollars?
 

CardinalPiggles

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now this is fascinating, (uber nerd when it comes to mythology and ancient culture), i wonder what will be found there...

i dont suppose you can put up another article when you find more information? i love this stuff.

Souplex said:
NO! Anything having to do with ancient Egypt can't end well.
Best case scenario we all end up playing a terrible card game, worst case scenario it kills us all.
There's a reason this stuff was buried.
i think you watch too much TV friend.
 

ryo02

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now go looking for atlantis hey it wouldnt be the first time we realised a city was real that we thought was fictional dont get your hopes up though heh.