Researchers drilled five cores into the Giza floodplain in May 2019 to try and reconstruct the history of the Nile. It was discovered that a vanished arm of Nile helped ancient Egyptians transport pyramid materials.
According to a new study, there was once a high-water arm of the Nile River that helped workers transport supplies to the Giza pyramids' construction site when the ancient Egyptians were building them some 4,500 years ago. This arm has now disappeared.
The finding adds to other archaeological and historical evidence suggesting that the Nile formerly had an additional arm flowing near the pyramids. But now it is evident that "the former waterscapes and higher river levels" gave the builders of the Giza Pyramid a leg up by analyzing ancient pollen samples taken from earthen cores, a group of researchers wrote in a paper published on August 29 in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study explains how the pyramids, which served as ...
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