Talking Pyramids

Last week we looked at Khufu’s Horus name, Medjedu. This week we have a gold signet ring bearing the name of Khufu’s birth name. What is interesting about this ring is that it does not date to the 4th Dynasty, the reign of Khufu as was previously thought. Instead, the inscription tells us that it [...]

The names of ancient Egyptian places, gods and kings are often obscured by the fact that they’ve come down to us via the Greeks, who had a habbit of making up their own versions of the words. And so Iunu became ‘Heliopolis’, Heru became ‘Horus’, … and Khufu, became ‘Cheops’. Khufu’s full birth name, however, [...]

The black basalt pavement on the east side of the Great Pyramid In it’s original form a pyramid traditionally had a mortuary temple on it’s east side, which was connected via a long causeway to it’s valley temple. Today’s photo, taken from the top of satellite pyramid G I-a, shows the black basalt that can [...]

Some of you might have followed Leena’s last painting, Cleopatra & Caesarion from the back wall of the temple of Hathor at Denderah. Leena at work on Cleopatra & Caesarion Utelising the power of the Internet, every few days Leena would share her latest developments with us by posting photos on her blog, Ancient Egyptian [...]

Beside the pyramid of Khufu there are five boat pits. Actually seven pits have been found but two of these belong to the queens’ pyramids being located between satellite pyramids GI-b & GI-c. The two most well known boat pits are on the south side of the pyramid while two more are located in a [...]

The re-wrapping of the mummy of the Anonymous Man was carried out in early February by the team from the Brooklyn Museum. We saw some of the live coverage of the re-wrapping here on Talking Pyramids. Today they’ve released the batch of photos from the fourth day of the re-wrapping and you can see all [...]

Work is underway at Giza to complete the Grand Egyptian Museum by 2012 This week we return once again to the Giza plateau with this recent observation. Talking Pyramids reader and explorer Leszek Zadlo snapped this photo of some large earth moving trucks on the south-west corner of the plateau. They appear to be working [...]