Lost Egyptian Pyramids Found

Images from Google Earth reveal what appear to be two long-lost pyramid complexes.

Images from Google Earth appear to show two long-lost pyramid complexes in Upper Egypt near the city of Abu Sidhum, Discovery News reports.

Google Earth is a 3D virtual globe and mapping program that combines satellite imagery and aerial photography. First created by a company funded by the Central Intelligence Agency, the program was acquired by Google in 2004.Egypt’s best-known pyramids, including the fabled Great Pyramid, are located at Giza, not far from the capital city of Cairo, but 115 others are known to be scattered throughout the country.

The 4,000-year-old structure had been documented by archaeologist Karl Richard Lepsius in 1842 but it was lost when desert sands covered it back up for more than a century and a half.

The first of the two sites contains what Micol characterizes as “a distinct, four-sided, truncated, pyramidal shape that is approximately 140 feet in width.” The site also contains three small mounds aligned in a diagonal manner similar to the pyramids at Giza.

The second site, shown in the photo above, contains four mounds, the two largest of which are each 250 feet in width. The smaller mounds are each approximately 100 feet wide.