Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

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 [...]

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: 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 as [...]

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.

The debate over whether or not the pyramid builders used a type of limestone cement to construct the pyramids continues. Just in the last couple of weeks a rebuttal of the ‘cement pyramid’ theory by Ioannis Liritzis and his colleagues from the University of the Aegean and the University of Athens has been all [...]