Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

This week’s photo of the week is of the boat pit that lies beside the Unas Pyramid’s causeway, or processional ramp.

Unas Boat Pit

One of two, this boat pit is 44m long and is located 150m away from the remains of the funeral temple. Lined with limestone blocks these boat pits are thought to have been [...]

Zahi Hawass in 2003
In a recent interview with Andrew Bayuk, Zahi Hawass has revealed that they have discovered another pyramid at Saqqara. It is claimed that this pyramid belonged to one of the queens of Teti. Other tombs were also found at Saqqara but a formal announcement is yet to be made.
The museum [...]

Khufu’s boat pit. Photo: Guy Flâneur.
Discovery News has launched a new podcast called Archaeorama. The podcast debuts with “On the Phone”, a series of interviews some of the world’s top archaeologists. The first interview is by Rossella Lorenzi with maritime archaeologist Cheryl Ward and SCA chief Dr. Zahi Hawass on the subject of [...]

The video recently taken of Khufu’s second boat pit has been posted on the National Geographic website:

Video of the Boat pit from National Geographic

Click the image above to watch the video.

Here are some more photos of the boat museum built to house the first of Khufu’s funeral boats. These photos were supplied by Guy Flâneur who has done an excellent job of capturing a variety of interesting views of Khufu’s boat, and some of the accompanying objects in the boat museum.
A slide [...]

Zahi Hawas, left, and Sakuji Yoshimura, right, from Waseda Universty in Japan, display for the first time the Pharaoh Cheops’ second solar boat through a camera put inside the boat pit. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Today the viewing of Khufu’s second boat in it’s underground tomb went ahead successfully as planned.
Visitors to the plateau were able [...]

Khufu’s first solar boat.
Khufu’s first solar boat was discovered in pieces in a pit on the south side of his pyramid in 1954. It has now been rebuilt and resides in a museum built especially to display the boat located directly above the pit.
Three years later in 1957 another solar boat was found [...]