water transport

Current Archaeology
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Amesbury History Centre

With Amesbury’s recently opened History Centre celebrating six months of operations, Carly Hilts learned more about its displays and plans for the site’s future from Andrew Doig, one of its trustees.

Above The Great Pyramids on the Giza Plateau. New research shows that during the Old Kingdom, a now dried up branch of the Nile allowed the transport of stone blocks to the building site, which today is surrounded by desert.

Ancient Egypt
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Nile branch key to construction of Giza pyramids

The study suggests that the existence of a Nile branch during the Old Kingdom allowed the Egyptians to transport heavy stone blocks by water close to where these monuments were built.