Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Assem Dief has written an article on the legends surrounding Sirius. Interestingly, Assem reveals mention of Sirius from Arab sources and compares it with Ancient Egyptian mythology.

‘Sothis is encircled by the Duat’ - Utterance 216, Pyramid Texts.

“Looking into other cultures we find equal myths about the same type of story. To the Indians the […]

More discoveries at Saqqara.

A painted 19th dynasty sarcophagus belonging to Maayi, a scribe in the palace of Maat during the reign of Ramesses II (1279 BC to 1213 BC)
Several painted wooden coffins as well as statues representing their owners have been discovered by Egyptian archaeologists. Tunnels containing carved stones were also found in […]

The IAE Computer Group (Informatique et Egyptologie, I&E) will be meeting in Vienna at the Kunsthistorisches Museum on the 8-11 of July this year. The conference itself will start on Wednesday the 9th and 10th.

IAE 2008 meeting at the Kunsthistorisches Museum

The conference fee is €30 and includes a visit to the Heurigen restaurant for a […]

Last Tuesday morning the American-Japanese scientific team arrived in Saqqara to commence the laser scanning of Djoser’s pyramid to create a 3D model.

Creating a 3D model of Djoser

It is expected to take four weeks to complete, after which a survey of the internal structure will commence as part of phase two of the project.

Sato pointed […]

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 […]

More news on the search for Menkaure’s missing sarcophagus.

Franck Goddio discovered artefacts submerged in Alexandria and is also favoured in the search for the Beatrice

Spain and Egypt have made some advancements on the arrangement of a joint mission to search for the sarcophagus of Menkaure, lost on the sea floor somewhere between Malta and Gibralta. […]

More on the laser scanning of Djoser’s pyramid.

Creating a 3D model of Djoser

“Egypt plans to make a documentary film of Pyrmaid of Djoser, Egypt’s first step pyramid, using a three-dimensional technique to be a reference to all archaeologists,” Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said Monday 9/6/2008.
The film will display a perspective image of the […]

Announced today on the website of Zahi Hawass was the news that the step pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara will be scanned with precision lasers. The goal is to produce a three-dimensional model that will help to preserve the oldest pyramid of Egypt, thought to be designed by the great architect Imhotep. […]

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 […]

More on the discovery of the pyramid of Menkauhor at Saqqara, a video from the National Geographic website:

Video of the excavation of what is thought to be Menkauhor’s pyramid at Saqqara

From today’s story in the Guardian:
“In 1842, German archaeologist Karl Richard Lepsius mentioned it among his finds at Saqqara, referring to it as number 29 […]