Seventeen lost pyramids are believed to have been found in Egypt by a team of space archaeologists from Alabama, according to a report.
Sarah Parcak and her team at a NASA-sponsored laboratory at the University of Alabama at Birmingham made the discoveries using a satellite survey, and also found more than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements in infrared images that show up buildings underground, BBC News reported.
The BBC said that two of the suspected pyramids had been confirmed by initial excavations.
“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,” Parcak said.
via Lost pyramids spotted by space scientists – Technology & science – Science – msnbc.com.
Frankly, this is pretty cool.
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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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This is ridiculous, and by ‘ridiculous’ I mean “Holy ****, how did they do that? This is so cool!”
it is pretty stunning.
Darnit! I was hoping something Egyptian had turned up in the Deep South. Or at least some ancient American stuff to excite the Mormons.
How very careless to lose seventeen pyramids, a thousand tombs and three thousand settlements!
That’s it, then. There will be absolutely no more pyramids or ancient tombs or ancient settlements until everything is straightened up.
(signed)
Egypt’s Mom