Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Heidelberg University
HEIDI: The University of Heidelberg’s Library Catalogue has a range of books on Ancient Egypt that can be viewed online or downloaded and printed out. Here are just a few examples of books that can be found there:
Richard A. Proctor:
The Great Pyramid: observatory, tomb, and temple
William M. Flinders Petrie:
Tanis (Band 1): 1883-4
London, […]

‘They Were Not Slaves’ - Mark Lehner

Marking the end of the 6 part series How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built?’ is an article written by Jonathan Shaw for Harvard Magazine on the discovery of the ‘city of the pyramid builders’ by Mark Lehner.
Lehner tells how he first travelled to Egypt in 1973 with the hope […]

Were the pyramids made of concrete?

The question of how the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built is one that has occupied the minds of many for thousands of years. Many interesting theories have been developed over that time and one that has recently made the news is that of the concrete pyramid.
In today’s article we’ll […]

How the Pyramid Built Itself

John Romer is an Egyptologist from Surrey, England and is well known for his humorous style and from his many appearances on a number of TV series on Archaeology.
In 1979, Romer and his wife, Elizabeth Romer, an archaeologist and designer, founded The Theban Foundation, for the purpose of […]

The Traditional Theory with Donald Redford

This is the first in a series of articles I’ll be posting concerning the age old question: How were the Egyptian pyramids built?
To start off lets look at a story thats been floating around the news last week or so. Donald B. Redford, Ph.D. is professor in […]

The Giza Plateau Mapping Project has been in existence since 1986 and was founded by the President and Treasurer, Mark Lehner and board member, Matthew McCauley, Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Inc.
The organisation is dedicated to research concerning the ancient Egyptian monuments of the Giza Plateau, and making the results of those studies available to […]

Egyptologist William Flinders Petrie’s meticulous measurements of the Great Pyramid of Giza recorded in the 1880’s are still considered to be the best source for any serious study of the Pyramid of Khufu.
The results of Petrie’s survey were first made available to the public online in the late 1990’s by Graham Oaten but is now […]

I have updated the Pyramid Texts Online Tools page with the addition of a useful Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. This dictionary was created by Paul Dickson as a result of his frustration with the existing dictionaries and their arrangement around the approximate sounds of the words instead of their spelling, as dictionaries are usually […]