Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

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 […]

Heidelberg University
HEIDI: The University of Heidelberg’s Library Catalogue has a range of books on Ancient Egypt that can be viewed online or downloaded and printed out. Here are just a few examples of books that can be found there:
Richard A. Proctor:
The Great Pyramid: observatory, tomb, and temple
William M. Flinders Petrie:
Tanis (Band 1): 1883-4
London, […]

I thought I’d start a new schedule of reviewing an Egyptology website each week.
This week’s website review is on the Giza Archives Project.

The Giza Archives Project Website

The Giza Archives Project is a very useful and comprehensive online resource for anyone interested in the Giza Necropolis. Excavations that have occurred in the area are documented […]

A message from Saint Simian:
Hello to all Egyptologists with computers,
I’ve been working on a web application to help us all with our Hieroglyphic texts. It’s a Hieroglyphic dictionary wiki, like Wikipedia’s wiktionary except for Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs.
A wiki is like a website where everyone can edit the pages. When everyone can edit at […]

‘They Were Not Slaves’ - Mark Lehner

Marking the end of the 6 part series How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built?’ is an article written by Jonathan Shaw for Harvard Magazine on the discovery of the ‘city of the pyramid builders’ by Mark Lehner.
Lehner tells how he first travelled to Egypt in 1973 with the hope […]

Houdin’s Internal Ramp

French Architect Jean-Pierre Houdin has a revolutionary theory on how the pyramids were built.
He looked at the three main existing theories: the large long straight ramp used to drag the stone up on sleds or rolled on logs, the wooden ‘machines’ mentioned by Herodotus & the spiral ramp theory.
None of […]

Were the pyramids made of concrete?

The question of how the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built is one that has occupied the minds of many for thousands of years. Many interesting theories have been developed over that time and one that has recently made the news is that of the concrete pyramid.
In today’s article we’ll […]

The Traditional Theory with Donald Redford

This is the first in a series of articles I’ll be posting concerning the age old question: How were the Egyptian pyramids built?
To start off lets look at a story thats been floating around the news last week or so. Donald B. Redford, Ph.D. is professor in […]

JSesh is a free Open Source hieroglyphic editor for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. It’s quite a useful tool and covers most of the Manuel de Codage system. You can download it from the JSesh website.
Some new tutorials have recently been added to the website. The most recent tutorial shows in detail how to create […]

I seem to have developed a bit of a ‘Modern Pyramid’ theme over the last few weeks from Japan’s Shimizu Pyramid to Dubai’s pyramids and Germany’s ‘New Great Pyramid’. So I thought I’d keep that going today with a post on Russia’s new found fondness for buildings with a pointy top.
Here you […]