by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | GPMP Project
by Mark Lehner High-precision measure of the landscape On November 1, 1984, Inspector Amal Samuel, Salah el-Nasar, Abd al Gadar, David Goodman, and I set off across the Maadi Formation ridge that makes up the southern reaches of the Giza Plateau. We carried with us a...
by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | Featured Content, GPMP Project, News
Where do you look for a lost city? Locating a feature as large as the settlement and infrastructure that accommodated the ancient Egyptian pyramid builders is very different than locating an object or a single building. Landscape analysis combined with survey is...
by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | GPMP Project
How big of a hole do you have to dig to quarry enough rock to build a mountain? Pretty big when the mountain is the Great Pyramid, as Mark Lehner and David Goodman discovered when they surveyed the Great Pyramid quarry on the Giza Plateau. They were impressed by the...
