Talking Pyramids

Yesterday the Giza 3D Project was launched at a gala event at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). Peter Der Manuelian After the event I caught up virtually with Peter Der Manuelian, Giza Archives Director at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology at Harvard University, and Mehdi [...]

World leading 3D software company Dassault Systémes and Harvard University last night officially unveiled Giza 3D to the world at a gala event at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). It presents the results of over a 100 years of work by the MFA and Harvard University expedition led by George Reisner in the [...]

You may have noticed that the activity here on Talking Pyramids has died down a bit over the past few months. My ever faithful and trusty assistant Bennu has continued posting lots of news items every day on Twitter, which you can read in the side bar on Talking Pyramids. GooglePlus The reason for the [...]

There have been a few new additions to the Pyramid Texts Online website that I’d like to share with you all. Hieroglyphic Flash Cards A new online hieroglyphic flash card tool has been created by Plan Zero. If you are interested in learning the basics of hieroglyphs these are definitely worth a look. It’s still [...]

Dassault Systèmes has released the next 3D interactive experience of Jean-Pierre’s innovative theory on the pyramid of Khufu. Discover the New Khufu’s Pyramid Building Theory by Jean-Pierre Houdin: Visit the Dassault Systemes website to experience Khufu Reborn. Download the study carried out by Jean-Pierre Houdin, which has some very interesting observations: 34 Clues in Support [...]

In three days time Jean-Pierre Houdin and Dassault Systèmes will be at a conference in La Géode to reveal ‘Khufu Reborn’, the sequel to Jean-Pierre’s internal spiral ramp theory. Fellow bloggers Keith Payne from EmHotep & Marc Chartier from Pyramidales will be there along with Kate Bourdet from Dassault Systèmes to report on the event. [...]

The Third British Egyptology Congress organised by the EES, The Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum and University College London, is on this weekend with a great line up of speakers. Over seventy Egyptologists, archaeologists and other researchers will giving presentations. One of interest to readers of Talking Pyramids is a keynote [...]