Talking Pyramids

“It is Re who opens this beautiful New Year’s Day to thee”. “It is Ptah who opens this beautiful New Year’s Day to thee”. New Year’s Jars Dynasty 26 664-525 BCE Faience Such flasks were traditionally offered on New Year’s Day, filled with water from a sacred pool. This spectacular faience masterpiece exemplifies the refinement [...]

I’ve received a report from Maryanne Stroud Gabbani, who lives in Egypt, of an illegal road being built through the desert north of Abu Sir. Maryanne included many photos of the new road as well as some sensitive areas that are being quarried. Rubbish is also being dumped in the area. Trucks are dumping here [...]

Pyramids Closed. Chaos in Egypt generates fear of attacks on monuments After the ransacking of the Egyptian Museum and due to the current situation in Egypt the pyramids of Giza have been closed and the Egyptian army on guard against any attacks. Rather than attempt to gather all the events here I’ll direct you to [...]

Following up on the last post about the Third British Egyptology Congress, the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) have posted a stack of photos of the event on their Flickr page. I’ve presented them here for your viewing pleasure as a slideshow: The Third British Egyptology Congress, organised by the Egypt Exploration Society, the Department of [...]

No Climbing sign on the Pyramid of Khafre Shortly after I posted the story of the eye-witness video of the removal of the man from the top of the pyramid of Khafre I received a report from another traveller on the Giza Plateau that day. Kassy sent in some photos of the incident as she [...]

Following on from the story a couple of weeks ago of the removal of a man from the top of the pyramid of Khafre at Giza, a recent visitor Kassy Humphreys has sent in some photos that she snapped of the event. Military remove man from the top of Khafre’s pyramid after a night at [...]

“I’d like a room with a view of the pyramids with a splash of palm trees please.” A Room With a View Some have it tough. A Room With a View by Jay Bergesen. Some rights reserved.