Talking Pyramids

Giza Plateau: September 10, 1983 Andrew Collins has once again rebutted the efforts by Zahi Hawass to debunk his claim that he has rediscovered the large cave system under the Giza plateau. A number of photos of the caves have been posted in the past week. One on Collins’ website shows the entrance to the [...]

The free hard cover copy of Michelle Moran’s new book Cleopatra’s Daughter personally signed my Michelle has been won! All you had to do was correctly answer the question: Near which Egyptian city does Zahi Hawass believe the tomb of Cleopatra and Mark Antony is located? Most people chose to contact me privately so as [...]

Entrance to the ‘Giza Caves’ Director of the Giza Archives at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Lecturer in Egyptology at Tufts University, Peter Der Manuelian also runs a blog called the Giza Archives Blog. Continuing the momentum of what has become known as the ‘Giza Caves’ story, Peter has posted an article on [...]

In the previous post on the ‘Giza Caves’ we heard Zahi Hawass give his opinion of the cave system referred to by Andrew Collins. Within moments of posting that article Andrew Collins shot back with a response from himself and Nigel Skinner-Simpson to Zahi Hawass. I post it here in full for you to read: [...]

Watch as Andrew Collins explores the caves underneath the Giza plateau.

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 [...]

The Abusir Pyramid Fields A fully intact tomb of an Egyptian dignitary dating to 2500 BC has been discovered by a Czech team in the Abusir pyramid fields. Egyptologists have long enjoyed an impressive reputation for their work in Abusir, Egypt, but even they admit one doesn’t make a find such as this one everyday: [...]