Talking Pyramids

Buzzing about the Internet over the past few days has been the news of the rediscovery of some very large caves and tunnels underneath the Giza plateau. English author Andrew Collins, with the help of Egyptological researcher Nigel Skinner-Simpson, has located the entrance to the caves by digging through old accounts of past explorers. First [...]

Life and Work at the Great Pyramid – Piazzi Smyth Recently on the ThothScribe discussion forum Jon Bodsworth posted an enquiry wanting to gauge people’s interest in seeing a high resolution reproduction of the plates for Howard Vyse’s three volumes on Giza. Carefully scanning these old books is a very time consuming and delicate task [...]

When Mark Lehner first travelled to Egypt in 1973 with the hope of discovering the fabled ‘Hall of Records’ thought to be located beneath the paws of the Sphinx he probably didn’t imagine he’d end up staying for over a decade and finding a ‘Lost City’. Lehner, who has become one of the leading figures [...]

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 [...]

Corners of the internal ramp Breaking in the news this morning was the announcement of a new discovery: Egyptologist Bob Brier has discovered a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid! Apparently the discovery was made while investigating the merits of Jean Pierre Houdin’s theory that an internal spiral ramp was used to raise the stones [...]

Another small snippet of information has been released about the announcement of the discovery of the granite sarcophagus of Senusret II. The Egypt State Information Service sheds a bit more light on the subject: Egyptian archeologists have discovered the graveyard and sarcophagus of ancient Pharaoh king Senosert II. Secretary General of the Supreme Council of [...]

Heidelberg University HEIDI: The University of Heidelberg’s Library Catalogue has a range of books on Ancient Egypt that can be viewed online or downloaded and printed out. Here are just a few examples of books that can be found there: Richard A. Proctor: The Great Pyramid: observatory, tomb, and temple William M. Flinders Petrie: Tanis [...]