- The pyramids of Giza, erected some 4,500 years ago, represent one of the greatest feats in the history of engineering, and their construction has long raised a mix of interest, fascination and disbelief.
- And a set of papyri found in 2013 at a Khufu-age port in the Red Sea yielded new evidence consistent with this landscape and infrastructure, as they describe a port at the foot of the Giza plateau and chronicle the transport of material used to erect the pyramids.
- From these analyses, the researchers determined that the highest water levels in the Khufu branch occurred at the beginning of its 8,000-year record, coinciding with the African Humid Period, a time when North Africa and much of present-day Sahara were much wetter than today.
<span>How Nile branch helped ancient Egyptians build Giza pyramids</span>
