We mapped a lost branch of the Nile River – which may be the key to a longstanding mystery of the pyramids

Image title: Le Sphynx et les pyramides de Cheffren et Mycérinus. [Date created: between 1867 and 1899]. Image credit: Maison Bonfils (Beirut, Lebanon) via Library of Congress. No known restrictions. Article by Timothy J. Ralph, Eman Ghoneim and Suzanne Onstine. The Conversation – May 16, 2024. Study: Communications Earth & Environment.

The largest field of pyramids in Egypt – consisting of 31 pyramids built over a millennium, including the famous Great Pyramid at Giza – lies along a narrow strip of land in the desert several kilometres west of the Nile River. The Nile was at the heart of ancient Egyptian civilisation, and the location of so many pyramids some distance away from the river has until now not been fully explained. […]

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