Post by brillbilly on Jan 19, 2011 4:39:06 GMT 10
Nazca: History of the pyramids of Cahuachi
view here; www.wikimapia.org/5917463/Cahuachi-Pyramid
1. General report
Map with Nasca and Cahuachi
Proofs from since 4282 BC - the cultural phases - architecture and details - destruction of the religious site by earthquake and floods 350-400 - floods at the end of the first millennium - sealed ruins
Nasca-Cahuachi, the Great Pyramid with the pilgrim's courts
The Great Pyramid ("Gran Pirámide) on a satellite photo with the fertile Nasca valley (Google Earth)
Great Pyramid, stairs
and they have found more
A new remote sensing technology has peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome.
Nicola Masini and Rosa Lasaponara of Italy's National Research Council (CNR) discovered the pyramid by analyzing images from the satellite Quickbird, which they used to penetrate the Peruvian soil.
The researchers investigated a test area along the river Nazca. Covered by plants and grass, it was about a mile away from Cahuachi's archaeological site, which contains the remains of what is believed to be the world's biggest mud city.
Via Quickbird, Masini and colleagues collected high-resolution infrared and multispectral images. After the researchers optimized the data with special algorithms, the result was a detailed visualization of a pyramid extending over a 97,000-square-foot (9,000-square-meter) area.
The discovery doesn't come as a surprise to archaeologists, since some 40 mounds at Cahuachi are believed to contain the remains of important structures.
"We know that many buildings are still buried under Cahuachi's sands, but until now, it was almost impossible to exactly locate them and detect their shape from an aerial view," Masini told Discovery News. "The biggest problem was the very low contrast between adobe, which is sun-dried earth, and the background subsoil." www.mathaba.net/news/?x=608091
dig guys dig! ;D
view here; www.wikimapia.org/5917463/Cahuachi-Pyramid
1. General report
Map with Nasca and Cahuachi
Proofs from since 4282 BC - the cultural phases - architecture and details - destruction of the religious site by earthquake and floods 350-400 - floods at the end of the first millennium - sealed ruins
Nasca-Cahuachi, the Great Pyramid with the pilgrim's courts
The Great Pyramid ("Gran Pirámide) on a satellite photo with the fertile Nasca valley (Google Earth)
Great Pyramid, stairs
and they have found more
A new remote sensing technology has peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome.
Nicola Masini and Rosa Lasaponara of Italy's National Research Council (CNR) discovered the pyramid by analyzing images from the satellite Quickbird, which they used to penetrate the Peruvian soil.
The researchers investigated a test area along the river Nazca. Covered by plants and grass, it was about a mile away from Cahuachi's archaeological site, which contains the remains of what is believed to be the world's biggest mud city.
Via Quickbird, Masini and colleagues collected high-resolution infrared and multispectral images. After the researchers optimized the data with special algorithms, the result was a detailed visualization of a pyramid extending over a 97,000-square-foot (9,000-square-meter) area.
The discovery doesn't come as a surprise to archaeologists, since some 40 mounds at Cahuachi are believed to contain the remains of important structures.
"We know that many buildings are still buried under Cahuachi's sands, but until now, it was almost impossible to exactly locate them and detect their shape from an aerial view," Masini told Discovery News. "The biggest problem was the very low contrast between adobe, which is sun-dried earth, and the background subsoil." www.mathaba.net/news/?x=608091
dig guys dig! ;D
Happy New Years Everybody!!!
