Space Archaeology consists in the detection, through the analysis and the process of space images taken in different areas of wavelength and characterized by different spatial resolutions, of archaeological remains invisible to the naked eye because they lay underground, below a lush vegetation or even modern cities;

Egyptian Archaeoastronomy is the study, using appropriate softwares, of the astronomical orientation or content of archaeological remains dating back to ancient Egypt;

In other words,

the transition from one discipline to the other one is done by just changing the viewing angle, the wavelength of observation and the spatial resolution of the images studied;

the archaeological remains discovered through the analysis and the process of space imagery can later be studied on the Archaeoastronomical plane.

the satellite observation of the Giza plateau in the visible and the radar domains provides information on the location and the orientation of the buildings constituting each of the three pyramid complexes (royal pyramids, satellite pyramids, mortuary temples, tombs, etc.) and allows to detect the existence of substructures which are invisible to the naked eye;

Photographs of the Giza plateau taken from space in the visible (left) and radar (right) domains.

The observation, from the earth's surface, of sunset behind one of the three pyramids of Giza at the spring or autumn equinox, suggests the orientation of its sides towards the cardinal points and leads to determine, using appropriate softwares, the astronomical source of orientation of the pyramid in question.

Photographs of the Giza plateau taken from the ground in the visible domain only.

Thus, the remains discovered by means of Space Archaeology and whose existence is confirmed by ground excavations can be studied in the context of modern ArchaeoAstronomy. The establishment, on the www.culturediff.org Website, of a Web interface dedicated to Space ArchaeoAstronomy, aims to promote the growth of Egyptian Archaeoastronomy in providing you with various kinds of bibliographic and software resources, issued for some from the space sector.