Researcher's Google Earth findings confirmed as previously undiscovered, and may be groundbreaking in the archaeology world.
While the rest of us use Google Earth to zoom in on our own backyards, two researchers recently used it to make what could amount to a groundbreaking discovery. Satellite archaeology researcher Angela Micol used Google’s 3D mapping service to spot two separate, previously undiscovered sites in Egypt that resemble the famed Giza Plateau pyramids.
A separate authority – Egyptologist and pyramid expert Nabil Selim – has confirmed the findings as undiscovered, according to a statement on the findings on Google Earth Anomalies. The findings have been sent to additional researchers who will inspect the area on foot.
“One of the complex sites contains a distinct, four-sided, truncated, pyramidal shape that is approximately 140 feet in width,” the post on Google Earth Anomalies reads.
“The second possible site contains four mounds with a larger, triangular-shaped plateau,” the statement explained. “The two larger mounds at this site are approximately 250 feet in width, with two smaller mounds approximately 100 feet in width. This site complex is arranged in a very clear formation with the large plateau, or butte, nearby in a triangular shape with a width of approximately 600 feet.”
Amazingly, this isn’t Micol’s first discovery by way of Google Earth. In the Google Earth Anomalies post, Micol says she has several similar findings that she has yet to release. What’s more, Discovery News reports that Micol in the past used Google Earth to uncover “a potential underwater city off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula.”
