Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.).. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

An archaeological site at Cahuachi - photo by Ed88. CC Some Rights Reserved.
In another example of the use of satellites to discover archaeological sites, yesterday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome it was announced that an ancient adobe pyramid near Peru’s Cahuachi desert has been discovered with the aid of a new remote sensing [...]