Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

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

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‘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 […]

The cameras at PyramidCam.com are back. You can once again view the Pyramids of Giza in real time.
Other features of the site include:
A Travel Log of ‘Rallye des pyramides’, a GoogleEarth placemark where you can view 3D reconstructions of the three pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx in GoogleEarth, a Weather page for […]

The Nova website has an interactive section on the Egyptian Pyramids which can be seen at a glance here.
There are several small 360 degree views in Quicktime VR such as the view from the top of Khufu’s pyramid as well as inside.
A bit of background and introduction to the pyramids here: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids.
Or […]

This week’s photo comes from Chamorrobible.

An Air Transport Command Airplane Flies Over The Pyramids During World War II, 1943.

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Source: Chamorrobible.org

“There was nothing diminutive about the 200-by-200-foot miniature set on “10,000 BC.”
The bigger you build it, the better you can build it,” Grüninger says. “The sheer size makes it easier to add the necessary amount of detail and that allows the camera to go closer and closer. It’s easier to get the depth of field. […]