Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

The beard that was once attached to the chin of the Sphinx at Giza.

This fragment of the beard is currently located in the British Museum. The museum has an article about it on their website that gives some background information on the acquisition of the beard:

The British Museum has this small fragment - [...]

Sphinx. Lithograph: David Roberts
Latest press release from Dr Zahi Hawass’ website on the scientific report on water levels under the Sphinx.
Summary: The Sphinx is OK.
“Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said that the scientific studies carried out by the Ecology and Engineering Center revealed that the groundwater in [...]

The Brooklyn Museum has taken the step of displaying some of their photographic collections online. To begin the process the museum has uploaded a set of lantern slides of Egypt collected by the Museum’s first Curator of Fine Arts, William Henry Goodyear. These slides were used by Goodyear to illustrate his lectures on Ancient [...]

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 [...]

The Windows of the World theme park in the city of Shenzhen, southern China’s Guangdong province, has a range of major world landmarks in miniature form such as France’s Eiffel tower, India’s Taj Mahal, London’s Big Ben and of course….the Pyramids of Egypt.

A visitor rides a camel at the site of a miniature replica of [...]