VIVAnews -From the latest satellite survey conducted in Egypt, found the lost pyramids of 17 as well as more than 1,000 ancient tombs as well as 3,000 relics.
Quoted from the report of the BBC, May 26, 2011, survey done using infrared imaging from satellites to detect buildings under ground. The research itself is conducted in a laboratory that is supported by NASA in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
Research utilizing satellites that are in the range of 700 kilometers from the surface of the Earth with the camera that is able to show exactly the objects on Earth with a size less than 1 meter. Infrared image of it then found a variety of different material that exists below the surface.
"Find and dig up the pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist," said Sarah Parcak, Chairman of the research team at the BBC.
At the same time, quoted from an Associated Press report, the Government of Egypt back to open the grave of the seven people, including those who serve the King of Tuankhamen for the tourists after the tomb was completed renovated.
Egypt hopes that the grave in the New Kingdom Cemetery, South Saqqara will invite tourists to come to the area. As known, Egypt's tourism industry was devastated as a result of the revolution and the uncertainty of the political conditions that occur.
As evidence, according to the report, the number of tourists who come to the land down 46 percent in the first quarter of this year.
Back to the discovery of 17 missing pyramid, as a follow-up of these discoveries, Parcak and a team of researchers will be doing that initial findings of the investigation and will be published on May 30, 2011.
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