Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Menkaure’s Basalt Sarcophagus
Spain and Egypt will commence a search later this year for the Beatrice, the 19th century ship that was wrecked at sea while attempting to transport the black basalt sarcophagus of Menkaure to England.
Please note, the news story wrongly reports the sarcophagus as having once contained the body of Khafre instead […]

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 […]

‘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 […]

Saqqara Online is an excellent website for keeping up to date with the the excavations in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara.
The Leiden Excavations are a joint project of the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, the Netherlands & the Leiden University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Egyptology and Faculty of Archaeology in […]

There is always something happening in the world of Egyptology. Today’s story concerns the possible discovery of Imhotep, architect of Djoser’s Step Pyramid:
“The Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project may be on the verge of discovering the remains of Imhotep, the architect of the Step Pyramid.
Project Director Ian Mathieson said, ‘We’ve now found two large tombs where […]

From National Geographic:
Archaeologists working at the site of a 7,000-year-old village in Egypt’s Faiyum depression excavate clay floors and hearths.
The site is the earliest farm settlement yet found in Egypt, providing a major breakthrough in understanding the enigmatic people of the late Stone Age who lived long before the appearance of the Egyptian pharaohs, experts […]

“A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Egypt’s Fayyum oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday.
“An electromagnetic survey revealed the existence in the Karanis region of a network of walls and roads similar to those […]

A Czech team has opened an intact burial chamber from the fifth dynasty in Abusir. The tomb was discovered in 2006 but the burial chamber was not explored at the time and has remained sealed for nearly 4,500 years.
“The most important conclusion to be connected with this discovery—which is, in principle, a major discovery—is […]