Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Jebel Barkal in Google Earth
Still on the topic of ‘Satellite Archaeology’ surveyor Rob Rosa, writes about using satelilites and sophisticated tools such as the Carlson SurvCE while surveying an archaeological site located at the base of Jebel Barkal, a sandstone table-mountain close to the Nile River and about 390km south of the Egyptian border.
As we [...]

As technology evolves at an increasingly rapid rate, the study of ancient sites is aided by some of it’s developments. One such tool that has leaped into the hands of Egyptlogists and Archaeologists in recent years is the satellite. A great boon to any study of a site is the ability to view [...]

The Boat Pit on the east side of Djedefre’s pyramid
When I started this blog at the beginning of the year I did so with the aim of creating a useful resource to provide information about the pyramids. I began by creating the Pyramid Fields pages and offering practical information on each pyramid such [...]

The Pyramid Texts Online website has a collection of photos of the Unas Pyramid. At the top of the Photos page is an embedded interactive satellite image of the Saqqara area that is used to display some of the images. Each image is positioned according to the photographer’s location.
There is also a [...]

Satellite image of the Nile
Still on the topic of the use of satellites in Archaeology, the University of Arkansas is helping archaeologists by providing them with satellite imagery as old as 40 years to see what archaeological sites looked like before the spread of cities encroached on them.
With the aid of new technology [...]

An archaeological site at Cahuachi - photo by Ed88. CC Some Rights Reserved.
In another example of the use of satellites to discover archaeological sites, yesterday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome it was announced that an ancient adobe pyramid near Peru’s Cahuachi desert has been discovered with the aid of a new remote sensing [...]

Large buried walls at Tanis
More and more archaeologists are using Google Earth as a tool for discovering new archaeological sites and planning expeditions.
This story from the Economist describes how some archaeologists are using Google Earth:
David Thomas, a graduate student at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, belongs to a team that launched a project called [...]