Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Filming the ‘Mystery of the Screaming Man’
National Geographic’s Expedition Week runs from November 16 through November 23 and features seven nights of educational programs on Ancient Egypt as well as other topics.
Showing this Friday, November 21, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. on the National Geographic Channel is ‘Egypt Unwrapped: Mystery of the Screaming Man’:
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Serj Rosmorduc has updated his hieroglyphic software JSesh to eradicate some bugs, improve usability, update fonts and call for volunteers to help develop the glyph description tool.
Here is his email to the Ancient Egyptian Language group:
Dear all,
Version 2.8.1 of JSesh, my free hieroglyphic text editor, is available.
It can be found as usual on :
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As reported on Ancient World Bloggers Group (AWBG) a new open access Egyptological Journal has been launched by the Institut d’Egyptologie François Daumas - UMR 5140 - « Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes » (Cnrs) - Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III.

The ENiM website

From the ENiM:
ENiM is the first French magazine digital Egyptology. It is the [...]

The digitally restored White Chapel in GoogleEarth
Listed in the items recently added to ABZU, is ‘Digital Karnak’, the latest addition to the growing number of archeological sites being digitally recreated online to provide wider accessibility.
The Digital Karnak Project, built by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), is no small website. [...]

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 [...]

Here is another video on the Underwater Museum planned for Alexandria. Although it is in French it is still worth a look just for the visuals even if you don’t speak French.

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There is also an article in Al Ahram in French.
An English translation can be read [...]