Talking Pyramids

Following on from Thursday’s post I’d like to focus a bit more on the Pyramid Texts found in Queen Behenu’s recently discovered burial chamber. Offering texts on the north wall of the Unas sarcophagus chamber. Photo by Helmut Satzinger. I’ve been investigating the particular way in which the Pyramid Texts are arranged in Behenu’s pyramid. [...]

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi is currently flying through space aboard the International Space Station and he is using Twitter to communicate with us Earthlings. He goes by the name: @Astro_Soichi He has just posted a photo of the pyramids at Dahshur. The Red pyramid and the Bent pyramid can easily be seen from space: YES, you [...]

The Pyramid Texts were first discovered in 1880 inside the Pyamid of Unas by Gaston Maspero. Unas was the first pyramid to be inscribed with the famous corpus of texts and of the inscribed pyramids, Unas is considered to contain the most complete form of the texts. Maspero published the texts from the pyramids of [...]

First Steps into Khufu’s Pyramid, by Sean Ellis Access to the interior of the Great Pyramid is not through the original entrance as many would think. That entrance is now sealed with a locked gate and instead, tourists enter through the crude tunnel dug by Calif Mamun and his men when they broke into the [...]

An unusual shot of the Sphinx from dannebrog shows the Giza wall in the background. The size of the camel resting beside the wall in the shade indicates the height of the wall. The Sphinx as viewed from the north shows the Giza wall in the background Photo sphinxhead by dannebrog. Some rights reserved.

This weeks feature photo comes from the Brooklyn Museum’s Egypt collection: Beginning in the New Kingdom, when the solar cycle became a major theme in art, small pyramid-shaped objects called pyramidions (which, like the pyramids themselves, were solar symbols) were made as separate funerary stelae or to cap the pyramids now built atop private tombs. [...]

A distant perspective of the pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre and Khufu shot from the south-east corner of the Giza plateau. The persistent presence of the pigeons on the plateau has been a concern for a number of years now. They have made a habit of nesting in crevices on the Sphinx, such as the eye [...]