Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

More news on the search for Menkaure’s missing sarcophagus.

Franck Goddio discovered artefacts submerged in Alexandria and is also favoured in the search for the Beatrice

Spain and Egypt have made some advancements on the arrangement of a joint mission to search for the sarcophagus of Menkaure, lost on the sea floor somewhere between Malta and Gibralta. [...]

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 [...]

Feb. 25, 2008 — Two of the pyramids of Giza , the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, were conceived as a single project–a sort of grandiose stage show to represent the final and most important part of a pharaoh’s journey to the afterlife, an Italian study has concluded.
It is widely believed that the [...]

The Giza Plateau Mapping Project has been in existence since 1986 and was founded by the President and Treasurer, Mark Lehner and board member, Matthew McCauley, Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Inc.
The organisation is dedicated to research concerning the ancient Egyptian monuments of the Giza Plateau, and making the results of those studies available to [...]

It seems that Khufu and Khafre are the only pyramids at Giza that are currently open on to the public.  Menkaure’s pyramid is closed.
You can visit the Giza Plateau page for more information.

After seeing Andie Byrne’s request for information on the which pyramids were currently open to the public I realised that if I am to create a real information service on the ancient Egyptian pyramids I need to include this sort of information.
So I have begun adding opening times on those pyramids that are currently open [...]