Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

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 [...]

Next Monday the History Channel will air a documentary called “The Lost Pyramid”.
The documentary sensationally refers to the pyramid of Djedefre as “The Lost Fourth Pyramid of Giza”, even though Egyptologists have been well aware of this pyramid for over a hundred years, it first being investigated by John Perring and later by Flinders Petrie [...]

Here is a great interactive 360 degree panorama of the Giza plateau and surrounds. Use the the Shift and Ctrl keys to zoom in and out and the mouse or the arrow keys to look around.

Click to interact with the full-screen 360 degree Panorama of Giza Plateau

Yellow circle indicates the position of the [...]

Today it is with great excitement that I announce the launch of the GlyphStudy Open-Source Projects Group.
Here is the Public Announcement released earlier today:
The GlyphStudy Open-Source Projects (GOSP) Group is an association of software developers, Ancient Egyptian educators, students, and scholars of various levels devoted to open source and public domain tools and resources to [...]

Here’s a practical exercise for you to do at home. A great weekend activity for the kids. I remember when I was about five my Dad helped me make a model pyramid out of paper. I’ve got three different methods of making a paper pyramid for you. Click on each of [...]