Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

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 […]

Calcium deposits attract pigeons to Sphinx - photo from Daily Star Egypt
An increasing number of pigeons and other birds are gathering at the Sphinx. It is thought that the rising humidity level in the stone that the Sphinx is carved from is causing calcium deposits that attract the birds. Their droppings as well […]

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 […]

Instead of a photo, this week we have a hand-coloured lithograph of the Giza Plateau done by David Roberts R.A. in the early 1800’s.

Lithograph by David Roberts R.A.

View more of Roberts’ artworks at the Museum Tours website.

The pyramids of Giza during a sandstorm.

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 […]

There has been a lot of buzz in the news recently about the pyramid containing blocks made from cement. First made public by Davidovits, the theory has more recently received support from material scientists such as Michael Barsoum who’s article appeared in the scientific magazine Nature vol. 444 in December 2006. Now Linn […]

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 […]

Giza plateau from above

Click on the photo to see the full size image.

‘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 […]