Mystery of Egyptian pyramid placement solved as researchers discover why they were built in ‘inhospitable desert strip’

THE Egyptian Pyramid’s may have been intended to tower above a lush, green stretch along the river Nile amid the arid western Sahara.

But something happened, and now the Great Pyramid’s poke out of a “a narrow, inhospitable desert strip”.

Eman GhoneimThis long-lost river branch may have been key to transporting the necessary materials to build the pyramids[/caption] GettyResearchers found that many of the pyramids had causeways which ended at the proposed riverbanks of the...