Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

As technology evolves at an increasingly rapid rate, the study of ancient sites is aided by some of it’s developments. One such tool that has leaped into the hands of Egyptlogists and Archaeologists in recent years is the satellite. A great boon to any study of a site is the ability to view [...]

Two tombs have been discovered at Saqqara dating to the reign of Unas at the end of the 5th dynasty, about 2350 BC.

Tomb of Thinh, ‘Chief of the Singers’

One of the tombs is about two by three meters in size and belonged to a woman called ‘Thinh’, who was responsible for procuring entertainers for the [...]

Bob Brier in front of the Great Pyramid
A few weeks ago Bob Brier gave a lecture to a crowded room at the Bruce Museum where he presented photographic evidence of undiscovered passages in the Great pyramid of Khufu.
From the Greenwich Citizen:
A trip to the pyramid came next. Brier was pictured precariously perched on the [...]

Scene from the Mastaba of Mereruka.

Head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, yesterday announced the discovery of another pyramid at Saqqara.
This brings the number of pyramids discovered in Egypt to 118, the last one being that of Menkahor, which was rediscovered about five months ago.
The Pyramid is thought to belong to [...]

National Geographic has posted a video to their YouTube channel today that presents supporting evidence of Jean Pierre Houdin’s internal spiral ramp theory, which suggests a system of corridors lay undiscovered inside the Great Pyramid.
Towards the end of the short five minute video Houdin is shown receiving an unpublished diagram that shows the results [...]

Corners of the internal ramp
Breaking in the news this morning was the announcement of a new discovery:
Egyptologist Bob Brier has discovered a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid!
Apparently the discovery was made while investigating the merits of Jean Pierre Houdin’s theory that an internal spiral ramp was used to raise the stones used [...]

Translated from the French website Le journal du CRNS:
At thirty kilometers southwest of Cairo, the site of Saqqara has delivered new wonders. The archaeological mission led by Egyptologist Christiane Ziegler revealed in broad daylight inviolate tombs dated from the first millennium BC Within a funerary complete and very well preserved was found (sarcophagi, statues, etc.).. [...]