Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Being Sunday it’s time for a bit of levity. So we have some fun topics today with a few videos beginning with Robocon 2010 Egypt – Robo-Pharaohs Build Pyramids. Can you build a robot that can build the pyramids of Giza?

Robo-Pharaohs Build Pyramids is the main theme of this contest. The idea is based on a virtual time machine that takes ancient Egyptian Great-Pyramids builders inside classrooms of technical schools. The new target is to build parts of the three Pyramids in sequence. Competing team members should be accurate, fast and cooperative. They should adhere to the main requirement of not using binding material between blocks. The winner team is the “Robo-Pharaoh” which succeeds to finish building assigned parts of the three Pyramids first. During three minutes, red and blue teams compete in order to mimic one of the surviving Seven World Wonders.

The contest takes place in Cairo on Tuesday 21 September 2010.

How about a free iPhone game then? Defend your Pharaoh with the new iPhone game iPharaoh EP2. As a feature of the Appvent the game was being offered as a free download although it seems restricted to certain countries.

Or some ancient Egyptian art: A video of some speed painting of an Egyptian Princess.

If you’d like prefer some Sunday reading material, the annual AREA report is out with Mark Lehner reflecting on 30 years of being an archaeologist and working at Giza and you can download it in PDF format from the AERA website. Also, check out Andie’s page where she has all five issues of the Egyptian Museum Newsletters available for download. If you are looking for a book to purchase, perhaps a late Christmas present Salima Ikram has a new book out:

• BOOK: New book out by Salima Ikram – Ancient Egypt: An Introduction: http://bit.ly/8U3wG1 #
• PHOTO: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead in the RMO, Leiden, from koopmanrob: http://bit.ly/6TgsUv #
• PHOTO: A colourful tomb interior from Horus3: http://bit.ly/6MnSDD #
• PDF: Download the AERA 2009 Annual Report. 10, 20, 30 Years: Mark Lehner reflects on a career in Archaeology: http://bit.ly/7qH2vO #
• PDF: Download the latest issue of the Cairo Museum Newsletter, via Anie Byrnes: http://bit.ly/2qMAyW #
• iPhone game: iPharaoh EP2. Desperate Pharaoh featured at Appvent's Day 12. Download the game for free (today only):http://bit.ly/7I99wb #
• Robocon 2010 Egypt – Robo-Pharaohs Build Pyramids. Cairo, Egypt, 21 September 2010: http://bit.ly/4vPUdW #
• Postcard from Thoth Hill, Valley of the Kings, from Jane Akshar: http://bit.ly/5HsD8O #
• VIDEO:Egyptian Princess – Speed Painting by Alexandre Masquio – Ancient Kemet: http://bit.ly/62slGt #
• J. Gwyn Griffiths, Professor of Classics and Egyptology at the University College of Swansea and Wales: http://bit.ly/7cSn9g #
• PHOTO: Dr. Hawass meets Vin Diesel to discuss his new movie about the Carthaginian commander Hannibal: http://bit.ly/4ZTMnT #

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