In this satellite image, the white arrows show the buried pyramid and the black arrows other structures which have yet to be investigated.Posted on 10/06/2008 10:07:31 AM PDT by BGHater
New remote-sensing technology reveals huge structure beneath surface
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 that could not be spotted using conventional imagery.
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."
In this satellite image, the white arrows show the buried pyramid and the black arrows other structures which have yet to be investigated.
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ping.
I can’t believe no-one has spotted this before. It’s bright blue for heaven’s sake!
A pyramid built down into the ground?
must be a couple of hundred feet deep at the bottom, and the bottom lines are as clearly delineated as the sides.
also, doesn’t it look like it is tilted? from high altitude it wouldn’t look so much in profile would it?
something doesn’t seem quite right.
Earthquakes and vault lines, along with vegetation and other natural conditions might have altered the feature.
well.it is hard to really see elevation from an overhead location,but it probably is a mound like hill,the sat is showing disturbance of soil which contrasts with surface,,,I am not an expert,but I mess around with maps alot.
Obama landing area 51.
earthquakes and faultlines, yet the outline of the ‘pyramid’ is perfectly straight? sure.
wanna buy a bridge? the more I think of it the less I like this ‘pyramid’ story.
let's look at a few things here. the arrows in the pic depict three objects. the smallerst object to the left is too small for me to make out, but the other two appear like pyramids, but at vastly different angles. the fact that the bottom of the pyramids must be dozens, or even hundreds of feet deeper that the tops, yet the image has no corresponding deteriration of quality make me suspicious, as does my earlier comments abotu the lines etc being perfectly straight.
Also one must wonder how long these objects have been buried, how long the process of burial involved, and any difference in weatherins from bottom to top is evident, or should be evident.
finally, the middle and right hand 'pyramid's have two sides visible. note that one each of the two sides is significantly darker than the other. would this be evident in a survey of buried objects, or should both visible sides be the same? It looks more like a shadow.
ping me when they dig it up and prove it, but for now I just don't buy it.
how deep are these sands?
It’s buried under the mub, as in completly covered up.
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National Research Council, Italy | Buried History -- A new remote sensing technology has peeled away mud and earth layers near the Cahuachi desert in Peru to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome. In this satellite image, the white arrows show the buried pyramid and the black arrows other structures which have yet to be investigated.
LOL~! you left out bigfoot. the lines of trees appear to be at a more or less equal elevation. that mens that if there really are pyramids beneath the sand, there must be a heck iof a dropoff in a very short area, like a cliff or very deep gorge. and we know that at the bottom of any deep gorge there is a river (think grand canyon). if this is true, then both visible pyramids straddle where the river would naturally be.
the roads and trees give us some vague idea of scale, yet there either is no river, or something is amiss in these pics.
Probably belongs to some ancient Smurf civilization.
You’re “reading” the image wrong.
There is zero profile imagery; this is virtually a straight down view. The large “pyramid” is the square outline with the corners identified by the white arrows. That is the footprint, or foundation, of the building. The line running diagonally through the square is a surface feature (possibly a road, wall) similar to the two more pronounced curving lines on the left. If you look just below and to the right of the lowest white arrow, you can see the “road” coming out of the trees. That it bisects the foundation is purely coincidental.
This right in line with other photos of buried foundations that I’ve seen.
Did anyone refer to the spectra this remote sensing used?
Just a note to anyone ever thinking of maybe hiding much by burying it, an amazing amount can be seen if you use the right part of the spectrum, and it behooves you to learn about it.
Since a great deal of the pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt were buried by sands and needed excavation to reveal their true size and nature, then it’s possible that these structures too, are buried by enough sand to almost completely cover them.
IMO
....That it bisects the foundation is purely coincidental.....
I visited the pyramids along the Natchez trace.
Most all had a trail to the top. The road is likely a trail to the summit.
; )
Further examination of the photo leads me to conclude that the lines across the alluvial plain that fills the much deeper valley of previous times, are terrace walls built to control the continuing erosion in the valley. Downhill being to the right in the photo.
Are the four white arrows pointing to the diamond shape of a four-sided pyramid?
Maybe someday additional work at these sites will provide more evidence for who exactly made the huge, seen-from-the-sky-only, symbols, marked in the deserts east of the Andes mountains of Peru.
YES
uh yeah. road. got it. the road runs exactly where the edge of the pyramid lies. how do you suppose the road builders knew where to align that road precisely where it matches the pyramid?
quite a coinkidink, as they say...
that would entail quite a lot of sand wouldn’t it? in quite a small geographic area.
you all might be correct, but I’m remain unconvinced. when ya get to be my age you can be ornery;-)
This is a vertical photo with virtually no side view.
The top and bottom of the photo are the bases of hills, the tops of which are out of the photo. The valley plain in between the hills gradually slopes downward from left to right and may rise to the level of the surrounding hills somewhere off the photo to the left. In earlier times, the valley was significantly deeper, and today the alluvium (waterborne soil deposits) fills most of it like a lake.
The blue imaging is vegetation, and the plain appears to be cultivated. What I called a “road” in my first post to you is more likely a small wall, fence, or trail. There are four of them crossing the plain in the central part of the photo. The center right one is most definitely a road leading to what appears to be a farmstead with a fenced yard located on the “peninsula” on the topside of the valley. The one on the right that appears to neatly bisect the square diagonally also completely crosses the field, although the portion above the topmost white arrow is difficult to see.
How could it be coincidental? When structures get buried, the soil immediately above them often exhibits greater or lesser fecundity than the the surrounding area. In Virginia, where I grew up, you can still see where buildings from colonial days stood by the way grass or crops grow over their foundations, creating almost a ghostly image of the floorplan. In this case foraging animals may have created the “trail” while eating their way across the longest distance of the fertile area. There may be hints on the surface of the structure below, such as eroded adobe exposed that might make for clear walking there. Without being there it's impossible to know for sure. However, it's obvious that the “trail” is NOT ancient, because it's on the surface!
“that would entail quite a lot of sand wouldn’t it? in quite a small geographic area.”
Depends on how many years that temple has been there..(climate change and ya know) :)
“when ya get to be my age you can be ornery;-)”
I’m pushing 60 (next year) so ornery is my middle name!
;0)
Climate change and ya know = climate change and ALL ya know...
(losing my memory in my ornery age too) lol!
Them dang Pervians have built ROADS right across the structures!
How rude!
Oh?
Lotsa big rocks in my area!
I think it MUST be ancient crop squares that have over grown!
Nowadays we get them crop circles which don't last too long.
What would our eyes 'see' withOUT the intruding lines to guide them?
YES!!
We need GRANTS!!
LOTS of them!
An AMAZING image has popped up in the American desert (seen in THIS satellite imagery) within the last 16 years.
Rumor has it that EXTRA terrestrials maybe be found here as well...
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.644354,-115.74748&z=15&t=h&hl=en
Related: July 28, 2006,
An ancient pyramid unearthed from the sands of the Cahuachi desert in Peru has been revealed to be part of a huge pre-Colombian ceremonial centre of great archaeological importance. But while the grand pyramid is the centre’s principal structure, the Cahuachi ceremonial centre also contains 34 other pyramidal temples, of between 15 and 35 metres in height.
It is believed that the centre was buried in a flood, resulting in the complex being buried under tones of sand until its recent rediscovery.
http://www.zeenews.com/news311949.html#
No need for high-resolution infrared and multispectral images. Just go to gogle meps and type in Cahuachi Peru AND SEE EXACT SAME IMAGE. http://maps.google.com/
pong.
You’re kind of late to this party, aren’t you?
Go reread post #33.
... and florescent blue at that!
Actually, I went to see an exhibition of Peruvian treasure at the Fowler Museum at UCLA some years back. It was more gold than I have seen anywhere. One “necklace” was of enormous peanuts about 9 inches each ... strung end to end.
Maybe they were just perusing the area.
Lots of big rocks here, too, but I often wonder and have heard one account of brass recovered from 150 ft. by a water well driller. I have not been able to examine the piece, though, and do not know what has become of it.
There may be entire civilizations buldozed beneath the boulder pavement or buried in the sand hills/outwash—or not, but it is fun to dream...
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