Talking Pyramids

What was I saying just yesterday about discoveries in Egypt coming thick and fast? The big news today is the discovery of more workers’ tombs on the Giza Plateau.

A school boy chips off a chunk of the Great Pyramid, gets plagued by many years of guilt. He finally returns the chunk to it’s original position in the pyramid and then knits a giant replica of the chunk as a self-imposed means of paying penance for his crime. It is hoped the work of art will raise awareness of the illegal removal of antiquities from Egypt. The exhibition entitled ‘Pyramid Piece 2009′ is being displayed alongside a film about the piece called ‘Return of the Pyramid Piece 2008′, in which he climbs the pyramid and returns the stone to its original spot.

There is a new game out from National Geographic called the Mystery of Cleopatra that is available for download and Mary Harrsch gives a review and a few other Egypt related games. A few other fun things for children is the British Museum’s ‘The Challenge – Making Sense’ for some hieroglyphic fun as well as the Children’s Museum of Manchester’s page on hieroglyphs.

Bring out your dead! Channel 4 is looking for an unusual volunteer – one who is willing to give their body up to be mummified. They are asking specifically for a terminally ill person. I hope they plan on waiting till they are dead first (a scene from ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ springs to mind).

• PHOTO: Christian scenes plastered over ancient Egyptian inscriptions on the walls of the Luxor Temple: http://bit.ly/7tYIvc #
• PHOTO: Dancer wearing Egyptian-look costume with wings reaching to the floor: http://bit.ly/6buoLj #
• Mac Gamers can explore ancient Egypt in Mystery of Cleopatra: http://bit.ly/7sjZ8J #
• The Challenge – Making sense of hieroglyphs at the British Museum: http://bit.ly/5FgHqC #
• Learn about hieroglyphs and writing at the Children's University of Manchester: http://bit.ly/6UcjuD #
• Channel 4 backs project to find terminally ill volunteer who would be embalmed for the cameras: http://bit.ly/4D4lto #
• Pyramid Builders Tombs Found at Giza: http://bit.ly/6eJGJB #
• Ancient Egypt in Turin at the Fukuoka Museum of Art. Dates: 5 Jan 10 – 7 Mar 10: http://bit.ly/75sBvD #
• Faults of the Pharaohs – Did the pharaohs of Egypt make their tombs in solid rock on the Theban Plateau? http://bit.ly/88LL5c #
• The Name Yahweh in Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts: http://bit.ly/7lE5hw #
• Pyramid thief pays penance by knitting a giant replica of the chunk he stole: http://bit.ly/7HxnmP #
• Dr. Bob Brier will be delivering a free lecture, open to the public, at Poughkeepsie, NY, on January 27, 2010: http://bit.ly/74ak6m #

Today’s photo, The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt is by SJ Pinkney Some rights reserved

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