Archaeologists using the Google Earth application have seen two clusters of structures in Egypt that may include undiscovered pyramids. Researcher Angela Micol from North Carolina said that two clusters of structures, 150 kilometers apart, had been spotted using the satellite-based application. One cluster covered an area of dozens of square meters. The structures, she said, were dug into the sand in a remote area and have unusual shapes, implying that pyramids may be included among them. One group of structures, 18 km from Abu Sidhum near the Nile River, includes four protrusions and a roof in the shape of a triangle. This group includes a structure about 200 meters wide, three times larger than the largest pyramids at Giza. "Upon closer examination of the formation, this mound appears to have a very flat top and a curiously symmetrical triangular shape that has been heavily eroded with time," Micol wrote on her website "Google Earth Anomalies." The second group of structures, 150 km from the Fayoum oasis, includes a 50-meter-wide block described by Micol as having a "distinct square center, which is very unusual for a mound of this size and it almost seems pyramidal when seen from above." According to Micol, this site "also contains three smaller mounds in a very clear formation, similar to the diagonal alignment of the Giza Plateau pyramids." Micol said that Egyptian archaeologist and Egyptologist Nabil Selim confirmed that the findings were new. "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," Micol said.
