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Submitted by jackdaw1 on Wednesday, 29 August 2012  Page Views: 4458

Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Possible Pyramids near Kafr Al Masallat
Country: Egypt
NOTE: This site is 25.239 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Lower Egypt (North) Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Nearest Town: Faiyum  Nearest Village: Kafr Al Masallat
Latitude: 29.543850N  Longitude: 30.646486E
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2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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Possible Pyramids near Kafr Al Masallat
Possible Pyramids near Kafr Al Masallat submitted by Andy B : One of the sites reported by Angela Micol contains a distinct, four-sided, truncated, pyramidal shape that is approximately 140 feet in width. (Small extract of Google Earth map reproduced for news reporting purposes) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Two unidentified mound complexes have been located with satellite imagery from Google Earth. [if anything the view on Bing Maps is clearer - click on the blue aeroplanes on our page] The first, at the location given, contains a distinct, four-sided, truncated, pyramidal shape that is approximately 140 feet in width, and three smaller mounds in a formation.

(see comment below for update - these are not pyramids but exactly what they are is not currently known)

The second possible site (location not given) contains four mounds with a larger, triangular-shaped plateau. 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.

The sites have been documented and discovered by satellite archaeology researcher Angela Micol of Maiden, North Carolina. Angela has been conducting satellite archaeology research for over ten years, searching for ancient sites from space using satellite imagery. Angela has been assisted by Don J. Long and Bill Donato.

The sites have been confirmed as unknown by Egyptologist and pyramid expert Dr. Nabil Swelim. Nabil’s discoveries include the pyramid called Sinki at Abydos and the Dry Moat surrounding the Step pyramid Complex at Saqqara. Nabil has stated the smaller 100 foot “mounds”, at one of the proposed complex sites, are a similar size as the 13th Dynasty Egyptian pyramids, if a square base can be discovered.

The Egyptian sites have been sent to Egyptologists and researchers for further investigation and “ground truthing”. Angela says, “The images speak for themselves. It’s very obvious what the sites may contain but field research is needed to verify they are, in fact, pyramids and evidence should be gathered to determine their origins. It is my hunch there is much more to these sites and with the use of Infrared imagery, we can see the extent of the proposed complexes in greater detail.”

However it has been pointed out that the lower 'pyramids' in particular look like geological features known as laccoliths.

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Re: Possible Pyramids near Kafr Al Masallat by jackdaw1 on Wednesday, 05 September 2012
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See the 'Google pyramids' up close


The place that went viral last month as the potential site of a mysterious Egyptian pyramid looks more like a series of mounds on the surface of Mars when you see it up close. Three weeks after the Dimai archaeological site burst into the spotlight, it's become a lot less mysterious — but there are still secrets to uncover.

The site has been familiar to Egyptologists since the 1920s: It's thought to have been the locale for a desert settlement going back to Egypt's Ptolemaic era, when Greek and Roman influences were on the ascendance. Did these mounds serve as watchtowers, or tombs, or well sites? That's what the Soknopaiou Nesos Project wants to find out. One of the project's directors, Egyptologist Paola Davoli of Italy's University of Salento in Lecce, filled me in about the current state of her group's research last week.

"For sure they are not pyramids, but their date and use are still not known," she told me in an email.

Since last week's exchange, Davoli has sent me these pictures of the site, taken during a 2006 survey.

Davoli has also been in touch with Angela Micol, the North Carolina researcher who turned the spotlight on Dimai last month via her Google Earth Anomalies website. Based on the satellite imagery, Micol suggested that the mounds might represent eroded pyramids. The up-close pictures make the formations look more like piles of rocky rubble. The largest one appears to have the ruins of a square building or walls on its summit, but it'll take a full-blown excavation to unravel the mystery.

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    Re: Possible Pyramids near Kafr Al Masallat by Andy B on Wednesday, 05 September 2012
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    Thanks for that Jackdaw. Ptolomaic era was 300 to 30 BC (I've just looked it up :) ) so still appropriate for a Portal listing.
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Re: Possible Pyramids near Kafr Al Masallat by Anonymous on Monday, 03 September 2012
Please see also http://nadernazemi.com/tag/angela-micol/

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