Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Next Monday the History Channel will air a documentary called “The Lost Pyramid”.
The documentary sensationally refers to the pyramid of Djedefre as “The Lost Fourth Pyramid of Giza”, even though Egyptologists have been well aware of this pyramid for over a hundred years, it first being investigated by John Perring and later by Flinders Petrie […]

Here is another article from Assem Deif, professor of mathematics at Cairo University and Misr University for Science and Technology.

The 8-sided pyramid - Al-Ahram
This time Assem looks at the great pyramid from a mathematical perspective.
“What about the Egyptian value for the Golden Ratio Phi? In calculating the hypotenuse of the triangle of base 220c and […]

A new article by Assem Deif published today in Al-Ahram discusses the possibility that the angle of the face of Khufu’s pyramid was aligned with the culmination of Sirius. Using cubits and sekeds Assem compares the face angles of other pyramids and looks at Arab sources for insight on the subject.

Temple of Hathor - […]

The debate over whether or not the pyramid builders used a type of limestone cement to construct the pyramids continues. Just in the last couple of weeks a rebuttal of the ‘cement pyramid’ theory by Ioannis Liritzis and his colleagues from the University of the Aegean and the University of Athens has been all […]

There has been a lot of buzz in the news recently about the pyramid containing blocks made from cement. First made public by Davidovits, the theory has more recently received support from material scientists such as Michael Barsoum who’s article appeared in the scientific magazine Nature vol. 444 in December 2006. Now Linn […]

‘They Were Not Slaves’ - Mark Lehner

Marking the end of the 6 part series How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built?’ is an article written by Jonathan Shaw for Harvard Magazine on the discovery of the ‘city of the pyramid builders’ by Mark Lehner.
Lehner tells how he first travelled to Egypt in 1973 with the hope […]

Houdin’s Internal Ramp

French Architect Jean-Pierre Houdin has a revolutionary theory on how the pyramids were built.
He looked at the three main existing theories: the large long straight ramp used to drag the stone up on sleds or rolled on logs, the wooden ‘machines’ mentioned by Herodotus & the spiral ramp theory.
None of […]

Were the pyramids made of concrete?

The question of how the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built is one that has occupied the minds of many for thousands of years. Many interesting theories have been developed over that time and one that has recently made the news is that of the concrete pyramid.
In today’s article we’ll […]

How the Pyramid Built Itself

John Romer is an Egyptologist from Surrey, England and is well known for his humorous style and from his many appearances on a number of TV series on Archaeology.
In 1979, Romer and his wife, Elizabeth Romer, an archaeologist and designer, founded The Theban Foundation, for the purpose of […]

BBC: Building the Great Pyramid

This docudrama features fictional character Nacht, one of workers who was part of building the Great Pyramid.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

The DVD includes an interesting 14 minute long “Making of” feature which explains some of the special […]