Talking Pyramids

Thomas Campbell, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art speaks of how the looting has effected their excavation site in Dahshur: JEFFREY BROWN: Tell us about the site. What kind of work goes on there? And the attacks, what do you know about the attacks at this point? THOMAS CAMPBELL: It’s a middle kingdom [...]

Two items appeared in the news last week about the Mexican pyramids so I’ve combined them into a single post for your amusement. The first story concerned the gathering of thousands of onlookers who arrived at the El Castillo pyramid in Chichen Itza to witness the appearance of the serpent on the side of the [...]

Learning ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs can be difficult. From having to remember the individual hieroglyphs, the vocabulary and grammatical structure of the sentences, to the transliteration techniques and Manual deCodage codes. It’s like having to learn several languages at the same time. Many people find it all too overwhelming and give up not long after starting. [...]

Bob Brier spoke on NPR (National Public Radio) explaining how the Great pyramid was constructed according to Jean-Pierre Houdin’s Internal Ramp theory. It was interesting to hear of Jean-Pierre Houdin, the man, and his impression of the Great Pyramid when he first set eyes on it when Bob Brier took him to Egypt. Dr Brier [...]

Akhenaton. Photo by Tybo Another podcast from the ‘Carlos Conversations’ series. In the second of the two new podcasts, Carlos Curator Peter Lacovara of Egyptian Art, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Emory, Shalom Goldman, and Gay Robins, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor in Emory’s Art History Department, explore the radical changes to Egyptian religion and [...]

Coffin of Tahat The Carlos Museum runs a regular podcast called ‘Carlos Conversations’. The podcasts are accompanied by photos and artwork enriching the experience. Host Sandy Goldberg of Antenna Audio holds an intimate conversation with Dr. Gay Robins, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History at Emory, in which they explore the imagery on the [...]

Khufu’s boat pit. Photo: Guy Flaneur. Discovery News has launched a new podcast called Archaeorama. The podcast debuts with “On the Phone”, a series of interviews some of the world’s top archaeologists. The first interview is by Rossella Lorenzi with maritime archaeologist Cheryl Ward and SCA chief Dr. Zahi Hawass on the subject of Khufu’s [...]