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Nile waterscapes facilitated the construction of the Giza pyramids during the 3rd millennium BCE
Hader Sheisha, David Kaniewski, Nick Marriner et al., 2022. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Pollen from cores at Giza reconstructs a Khufu branch of the Nile with high water levels in the Fourth Dynasty, which would have brought boats to the foot of the plateau.
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Sheisha, H., Kaniewski, D., Marriner, N., Djamali, M., Younes, G., Chen, Z., El-Qady, G., Saleem, A., Véron, A., & Morhange, C. (2022). Nile waterscapes facilitated the construction of the Giza pyramids during the 3rd millennium BCE. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2202530119
@article{sheisha2022nile,
author = {Sheisha, Hader and Kaniewski, David and Marriner, Nick and Djamali, Morteza and Younes, Gamal and Chen, Zhongyuan and El-Qady, Gad and Saleem, Amr and Véron, Alain and Morhange, Christophe},
title = {Nile waterscapes facilitated the construction of the Giza pyramids during the 3rd millennium BCE},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.2202530119},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2202530119}
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Sheisha, Hader et al.. “Nile waterscapes facilitated the construction of the Giza pyramids during the 3rd millennium BCE.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2202530119.