Scientists May Have Discovered the Reason of the Frame of Egypt's Pyramids

Scientists discovered an ancient Nile river branch that likely enabled the transportation of massive stones used to build Egypt's pyramids over 4,000 years ago.

The scientists claim that they may have elucidated the mystery that has been haunting them for millennia, as to how ancient Egyptians erected the pyramids at Giza and other similar sites over 4,000 years ago. The University of North Carolina Wilmington researchers have found traces of an ancient River Nile branch that was located near the pyramid fields, the most sacred sites of ancient Egypt.

For a long time, archaeologists had a theory that there was a waterway, not far from the pyramids, which could have been used for the transport of these gigantic stones to the sites of the pyramids' construction. Nonetheless, the location and scope of the project were hazy, so the exact location of the river was unknown. "No one had figured out whether it was the shape, the size, the location of the big waterway or the type of the water, all were unclear," said Prof. Eman Ghoneim, the principal investigator of the study.

This team of researchers utilized radar satellite images, mapped historical maps, field surveys, and sediment analysis to trace a branch of the ancient river that they called "Ahramat" meaning "pyramids" in the local language. The new evidence uncovered in Nature supports the idea that the Ahramat branch was perhaps 39 miles long, anywhere between 650 and 2,300 feet in width, and had 31 pyramids specifically dated from 4,700 to 3,700 years ago.

"The fact that we relocated a branch to the location where the waterway can support heavier blocks, equipment, people, everything actually helps us tell about the construction of the pyramids," said Dr. Onstine, one of the studies co-authors. The confluence of the river and the highly developed pyramid complexes reveals that it probably operated during the period the complexes were being built.

Bye-bye, human labor, rather the River could have been used as a source of energy to move the immensely heavy stones of the pyramids with less difficulty. "I don’t know, there’s just a lot less effort," she commented. It opens a new chapter in the history of how the famed pyramids were built thousands of years ago in a deserted area that is currently made up of an arid desert.

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Nile River was the life vein of the ancient Egyptian civilizations and the finding confirms this contribution to the construction of the world's greatest monument of architectural achievement that still poses as a mystery. And the chronic mystery of the "lost waterway" may finally be solved after centuries of detainment.