Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

This week’s photo is of the Sneferu’s first pyramid at Meidum, called Djed Sneferu or ‘Sneferu Endures’.

Seferu’s collapsed pyramid at Meidum

This week’s photo is of the granite sarcophagus inside the burial chamber of Khufu’s pyramid. From the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptian Lantern collection.

Khufu’s granite sarcophagus

This week’s photo is Limestone and Faience molding around a relief in the system of tunnels underneath Djoser’s Step Pyramid at Saqqara. Photo from the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptian Lantern collection.

Inside Djoser’s Pyramid

This week’s photo is of Khafre’s Valley Temple, from the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptian Lantern collection.

Valley Temple with Khafre’s Pyramid in the background

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 […]

This week’s photo is of the western wall of the Unas Antechamber, courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum. Click on the image to view the same wall as it appears today.

Looking into the burial chamber of Unas

The Brooklyn Museum has taken the step of displaying some of their photographic collections online. To begin the process the museum has uploaded a set of lantern slides of Egypt collected by the Museum’s first Curator of Fine Arts, William Henry Goodyear. These slides were used by Goodyear to illustrate his lectures on Ancient […]

After reading Andie’s post on the Temple of Denderah I have gone through some of my old photos of Egypt and found some of the Temple of Hathor at Denderah. I’ve added these to the Photo Gallery which you can view by clicking on the link on the side panel on the right or […]

Images of wrestling in tomb 15 at Beni Hassan.

Keeping with the Ancient Egyptian Games theme I thought I’d post a photo of wrestling in Ancient Egypt. It is from the tomb of Baqet III, otherwise known as tomb 15.

Performance in front of the Pyramids. Photo from http://english.donga.com/

Performers in traditional Egyptian garments rehearse for the “Show for Sound and light” on Thursday in front of pyramids in Giza, Egypt, playing drums and bagpipes. The similar shows using light and sound are currently being held at another three sites in Egypt. The performance takes 50 […]