Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

The new library at Pyramid Texts Online
The Pyramid Texts Online website has had a major update with the addition of the Library. Sit down and relax with an old classic, flick through the pages on-screen thanks to the Internet Archive’s Flip Book. Due to the antique age of most of these books it [...]

In another example of their great use of Social Networking, the Brooklyn Museum has reached out to the community to help them catalogue their collection now that it has gone online.
Those creative minds at the Museum have decided to make a game of it called Tag!.
“When Posse members login to play [...]

Khufu’s boat pit. Photo: Guy Flâneur.
Discovery News has launched a new podcast called Archaeorama. The podcast debuts with “On the Phone”, a series of interviews some of the world’s top archaeologists. The first interview is by Rossella Lorenzi with maritime archaeologist Cheryl Ward and SCA chief Dr. Zahi Hawass on the subject of [...]

Here are some more photos of the boat museum built to house the first of Khufu’s funeral boats. These photos were supplied by Guy Flâneur who has done an excellent job of capturing a variety of interesting views of Khufu’s boat, and some of the accompanying objects in the boat museum.
A slide [...]

This year

Khufu’s first solar boat.
Khufu’s first solar boat was discovered in pieces in a pit on the south side of his pyramid in 1954. It has now been rebuilt and resides in a museum built especially to display the boat located directly above the pit.
Three years later in 1957 another solar boat was found [...]

The Brooklyn Museum has been working hard over the past year to put their collection online and will launch it on their website early next week. Currently there are 5168 items already online and that number is increasing.

Djed Pillar from the Brooklyn Museum Collection
“We had three goals to accomplish in this round of [...]