Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

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 […]

The Ministry of Cutlure and the Suprime Counicil of Archaeology has released a new list for entrance fees to all archaeological sites in Egypt. The changes to fees commences in November 2008.
View the list of new fees.
Basically, everything has gone up 5 Egyptian pounds (LE) and some new sites have opened to the public. […]

Bennu was spotted by Wilks Rendai hovering around ‘Gantenbrink’s Door’ in the southern shaft of the Queen’s chamber in Khufu’s pyramid.

“It was his blue-green plumage that gave him away”. said Wilks.

Who is Bennu? Where is he now? What is Bennu twittering about?
Bennu is a small greeny-blue heron that can be seen flitting around the ‘Pyramid Network’ formed by the following web of connecting sites:
This blog: ‘Talking Pyramids’,

Pyramid of Man,
Pyramid Texts Online,
Ancient Egyptian Pyramids,
& Flickr

There have been a few new additions and changes to the blog so I thought I’d give a site update post.
Pyramid Fields
The area on the top-right side called ‘Pyramid Fields’ is where a lot of the action has been lately. I have been in contact with a number of people on my quest to […]

I have updated the Pyramid Texts Online Tools page with the addition of a useful Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. This dictionary was created by Paul Dickson as a result of his frustration with the existing dictionaries and their arrangement around the approximate sounds of the words instead of their spelling, as dictionaries are usually […]

After seeing Andie Byrne’s request for information on the which pyramids were currently open to the public I realised that if I am to create a real information service on the ancient Egyptian pyramids I need to include this sort of information.
So I have begun adding opening times on those pyramids that are currently open […]

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