Thanks to newly emerged satellite data, we now may know a bit more about how the pyramids were built.<\/p>\n
The pyramids are one of the world\u2019s greatest mysteries, but we\u2019re now a bit closer to the truth.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:<\/strong> Stargazer is a new hypersonic plane that will fly from New York to Tokyo in one hour<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Most historians agree that Egyptians began engineering and building pyramids between 5000 and 6000 years ago.<\/p>\n We also know they were used as glorified catacombs for the elites, mostly for pharaohs and their consorts.<\/p>\n Over 110 pyramids are still intact, including the Great Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the world\u2019s Seven Wonders.<\/p>\n However, we\u2019ve never really been able to figure out how they built them.<\/p>\n <\/a>Boesijana \/ Unsplash<\/a>Alex Azabache \/ Unsplash<\/p>\n The Egyptians had a vast knowledge of mathematics, architecture and engineering but no one knows for sure how they moved giant blocks of solidified sand and rock.<\/p>\n Mind you, a recent discovery from space provided a potential answer.<\/p>\n Dr Eman Ghoneim<\/a>, an Egyptian-American geologist who specializes in image and space data processing, discovered a landmark on the River Nile.<\/p>\n <\/a>Nada Habashy \/ Unsplash<\/p>\n According to Dr Ghoneim, the landmark in question is actually a dried-out waterway that once ran through Giza from the Nile Valley.<\/p>\n Dr Ghoneim believes that the Egyptians potentially used this waterway to transport material to build at least 38 different pyramids.<\/p>\n This is because she also discovered that this waterway passes through 38 different pyramid sites.<\/p>\n <\/a>Hossam M Omar \/ Unsplash<\/p>\n For a while it looked like we almost forgot we\u2019d been to the moon but now the space race<\/a> is back in full swing.<\/p>\n And, more to the point, it seems we\u2019re also using space as a source for knowledge and data.<\/p>\n Dr Ghoneim\u2019s discovery is just the latest example of space being used for something other than exploration<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Discovery from space shows how the pyramids were built<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to newly emerged satellite data, we now may know a bit more about how the pyramids were built. The pyramids are one of the world\u2019s greatest mysteries, but we\u2019re now a bit closer to the truth. READ MORE: Stargazer is a new hypersonic plane that will fly from New York to Tokyo in one …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":42208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}