Prospecting and Mapping of Archaeological Sites in Valley of the Golden Mummies Using Ground Penetrating Radar at Bahriya Oasis, Egypt

Application of ground-penetrating radar in Egypt has been addressed in archeological application in the last decade. The problem of the research is that the locations of the buried graves were not determined in the Valley of the Golden Mummies (VGM) where vehicles travel. The radar method is used to locate these graves and prevent vehicles from passing over them. The ground-penetrating radar method is used because of the ground-penetrating radar is an effective geophysical method in the study. The study area is divided into 7 grids whose dimensions are 50 m by 350 m in addition to the dimensions of each grid separately is 50 m 50 m. To collect informations, the SIR-4000 device is used connected to a 200 MHz antenna, 350 profiles with a sepatation distance between profiles 1 m and 50 meters in length are measured, and 50 profiles are measured in each grid separately in the form of Zig-zag grid pattern sequentially. The data are processed using Reflexw program version 7.0 for processing GPR data and analyzing the ground-penetrating radar data to remove impurities and to express anomalies that exist in profiles. After completing the data processing, is interpretation is deducted, and the final results of the research reveal the discovery of two graves, the first one occupies an area of 6-8 m at a depth of 4.5 m, whereas the second grave occupies an area of 4 m and at a depth of 1.2 m.