{"id":21399,"date":"2023-10-20T09:54:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T07:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/?p=21399"},"modified":"2023-12-20T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:17:02","slug":"en-route-to-the-secret-of-the-construction-of-the-gizeh-pyramids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/en-route-vers-le-secret-de-la-construction-des-pyramides-de-gizeh\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret behind the construction of the pyramids of Giza"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christophe Morhange, associate professor at CEREGE, is the project leader of a ground-breaking Franco-Egyptian study revealing the secrets behind the transport of the granite blocks used to build the Great Pyramids of Giza.<\/em><\/p>

Since 7 October 2023, the newspaper La Marseille has been offering a scientific saga in 4 episodes, told by Christophe Morhange.<\/p>

This is the story of a human adventure that immerses us in the field in Cairo with the team's researchers and doctoral students:<\/p>

. Prof. Christophe Morhange (AMU - CEREGE laboratory and EPHE - AOROC laboratory), geomorphologist specialising in ancient port environments, head of mission.<\/em>
. Dr. Nick Marriner (CNRS - THEMA laboratory in Besan\u00e7on), geomorphologist, author of a thesis on the ancient ports of Lebanon.<\/em>
. Dr. David Kaniewski (Toulouse Sabatier University), archaeo-palynologist and statistician.<\/em>
. Dr. Alain Veron (CNRS-CEREGE laboratory), geochemist, specialist in metallurgical pollution.<\/em>
. Dr. Gad EL Qady, (director of the NRIAG laboratory, the national astronomy and geophysics laboratory in Helouan).<\/em>
. Dr. Ala Salama (geophysics researcher at NRIAG)<\/em>
. Gamal Younes, doctoral student (AMU-CEREGE laboratory), thesis to be defended in December 2023 in physical geography on the question of palaeo-pollution at Giza.<\/em>
. Hader Sheisha, doctoral student (AMU-laboratoire CEREGE et IMBE), archaeo-palynologist, thesis in physical geography to be defended in 2024.<\/em><\/p>

Read the article, En route to Egypt, from idea to reality<\/a><\/p>

Read the article, On the pavements of Giza, urban geoarchaeology<\/a><\/p>

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Read the article, Multidisciplinary methodology: The study of sediments in the laboratories of the University of Aix-Marseille (CEREGE and IMBE)<\/a>

<\/strong><\/em>. Read the article, Results: <\/strong>Sediments as interesting to study as ancient monuments!<\/em><\/p>

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Christophe Morhange, professeur agr\u00e9g\u00e9 au CEREGE, est le chef de mission d’une \u00e9tude franco-\u00e9gyptienne in\u00e9dite r\u00e9v\u00e9lant les secrets de l\u2019acheminement des blocs de granite ayant servi \u00e0 la construction des […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":21400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 21:18:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21515,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions\/21515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}