Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

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 [...]

A 3D recreation of Khufu’s pyramid
Three dimensional models will be made of many of Egypt’s ancient monuments and archaeological sites using aerial and terrestrial photography.
The first phase of the process has just been completed:
The project comes as part of SCA’s plan to archive Egypt’s monumental areas that will also include the Pyramids and Saqqara.
“This [...]

National Geographic has a story on the submerged artifacts in the bay of Alexandria and the Underwater Museum that is planned for the site. A team funded by UNESCO, will conduct tests to evaluate the feasibility of such a museum for the site.
Hundreds of artifacts were discovered at the site in the 90’s by [...]

In another example of how Universities, Museums, and Libraries are embracing the web, the World Digital Library enters the scene to provide the world with access to free access to books and other learning multimedia.
From the Library’s website:
The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual [...]

Hierowords
Luca has announced an update to Hierowords, a free to download program that allows you to chose among 810 hieroglyphs of the Gardiner’s list and among 6717 hieroglyphs of the extended library from the CCER and arrange them in words.
In an email to the GlyphStudy group Luca wrote:

Dear all,
I am sorry for the long hiatus [...]

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 [...]

Serge Rosmorduc has released an update to his hieroglyphic text editor, JSesh as well as two new tutorials.
In an email to the Ancient Egyptian Language list (AEL) Serge writes:
Version 2.5beta of JSesh, my free Hieroglyphic text editor is available.
It includes a few changes:
* cartouches width works correctly
* encapsulated postscript export
* and above all, lots (really [...]