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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Towards the end of the short five minute video Houdin is shown receiving an unpublished diagram that shows the results [...]
Tags: Giza, Khufu
November 1st, 2008 | Posted in Discovery, News, Theory, Videos | No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Giza, Khufu
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Discovery, News, Theory | 1 Comment
Raffles Pyramid in Dubai
The International Conference on Ancient Studies will make it’s debut at the end of November and it will be held in the Raffles Pyramid in Dubai.
Speakers include Robert Bauval, who will be speaking on Ancient Egyptian Cosmogony, Dr. Robert Schoch, who’s session is on his speciality, the age of the Sphinx and [...]
October 18th, 2008 | Posted in News | No Comments
Map of the Giza Plateau
Hossam Zaater from Egypt Today discusses the second phase of the Giza Plateau upgrade and what it means for all involved.
Phase Two will soon kick off, thanks to a 15 million (LE 116 million) loan from the Spanish government. During this phase, the entrance from the Fayoum road will become the [...]
Tags: Giza
October 12th, 2008 | Posted in News | No Comments
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.).. [...]
Tags: Saqqara
October 12th, 2008 | Posted in Discovery, News | No Comments
The digitally restored White Chapel in GoogleEarth
Listed in the items recently added to ABZU, is ‘Digital Karnak’, the latest addition to the growing number of archeological sites being digitally recreated online to provide wider accessibility.
The Digital Karnak Project, built by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), is no small website. [...]
Tags: technology, Websites
October 12th, 2008 | Posted in Interactive, News | No Comments
Satellite image of the Nile
Still on the topic of the use of satellites in Archaeology, the University of Arkansas is helping archaeologists by providing them with satellite imagery as old as 40 years to see what archaeological sites looked like before the spread of cities encroached on them.
With the aid of new technology [...]
Tags: satellite, technology
October 5th, 2008 | Posted in News | No Comments