Serge Rosmorduc has just announced on the AEL wires that a new version of his free hieroglyphic editor, JSesh has been released.
JSesh is an excellent tool to help you study the ancient Egyptian language and this new release brings the software up to version 3.0.
Here is what Serge said:
I have the pleasure to announce version 3.0 of JSesh. Thanks to M. Thomas’ work, the full Manuel de Codage (or, in other terms, the “extended library”) is now covered by JSesh (save a few signs here and there, which will be fixed in the near future). So JSesh 3.0 is essentially JSesh 2.13, but with complete X, Y and Z families. I thought however that a full coverage of the Manuel de Codage warranted a new version number.
Visit the JSesh website to read more about it and download the latest verison of the software.
Beside the pyramid of Khufu there are five boat pits. Actually seven pits have been found but two of these belong to the queens’ pyramids being located between satellite pyramids GI-b & GI-c. The two most well known boat pits are on the south side of the pyramid while two more are located in a similar arrangement on the east side of the pyramid. The last pit is located on the north side of the pyramid’s causeway.
The report mentions that pottery sherds, torn cloth and bone fragments were found in the burial chamber:
“Experts are now examining what is left of Behenu’s mortal remains including what is believed to be her jawbone, which should reveal her age.
The excavation has stopped for the winter but the team leader believes they’ll find a gold mine of information about the queen when they excavate a funerary temple adjoining her pyramid next year.”
I suppose this must mean they’ve emptied the sand from the sarcophagus since this video was made.
Today they’ve released the batch of photos from the fourth day of the re-wrapping and you can see all of the photos from all four days on their Flickr stream.
Curator Ed Bleiberg and Conservators compare documentation to final form.
Work is underway at Giza to complete the Grand Egyptian Museum by 2012
This week we return once again to the Giza plateau with this recent observation. Talking Pyramids reader and explorer Leszek Zadlo snapped this photo of some large earth moving trucks on the south-west corner of the plateau. They appear to be working in the area of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the construction of which is currently underway.
Over eight years after personally laying the foundation stone, Culture Minister Farouk Hosni signed the contract last month for phase 3 of the GEM’s construction. According to Hosni, this phase would be completed in 26 months, in time for the opening of the museum around June 2012.
“It will be the biggest cultural project in the world…a cultural high dam that fulfills Egyptians’ dreams and belongs to the whole world.”
Following on from Thursday’s post I’d like to focus a bit more on the Pyramid Texts found in Queen Behenu’s recently discovered burial chamber.
Offering texts on the north wall of the Unas sarcophagus chamber. Photo by Helmut Satzinger.
I’ve been investigating the particular way in which the Pyramid Texts are arranged in Behenu’s pyramid. Confining the analysis to just the one section of the north wall of Behenu’s sarcophagus chamber I began translating the middle section as it is the easiest to see.
Astronaut Soichi Noguchi is currently flying through space aboard the International Space Station and he is using Twitter to communicate with us Earthlings. He goes by the name: @Astro_Soichi
He has just posted a photo of the pyramids at Dahshur. The Red pyramid and the Bent pyramid can easily be seen from space:
YES, you can see pyramid from space :-) Late afternoon in Egypt.
YES, you can see pyramid from space Late afternoon in Egypt.
Serge Rosmorduc has just announced on the AEL wires that a new version of his free hieroglyphic editor, JSesh has been released. 
Late afternoon in Egypt.
