Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Giulio Magli was in the news a couple of years ago with his grand plan for Giza, the idea that the three Giza pyramids

Pyramid Texts from the recently discovered pyramid of Behenu In the EEF news this morning was the news of the online publication of Giulio Magli’s 2010 paper: Archaeoastronomy and Archaeo-Topography as Tools in the Search for a Missing Egyptian Pyramid in PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 7(5) (2010) Here is an abstract: Among the [...]

Dr Zahi Hawass has posted an update on his blog on the work recently carried out at the Sphinx and the search for secret chambers. Did they find Edgar Cayce’s fabled Hall of Records? Last year, we drilled several holes around the Sphinx in order to measure the level of the groundwater, and we sent [...]

The location of the lost pyramid of Userkare may have been found with a little help from Djoser and some clever aligning. Professor of archaeoastronomy at Milan’s Polytechnic University, Giulio Magli has come up with a theory using new astronomical and topographical research to create a grid that connects up some of the major pyramids [...]

The Four Sons of Horus are most well known for their association with the mummification of the internal organs but there is more to these gods than containers of the dead king’s body parts. By focusing on the earliest records of the ancient Egyptian use of these four gods we’ll be letting the pyramids speak [...]

Egyptologist Bob Brier is to teach a course entitled “Ancient Egyptian Architecture” at the University of Louisville. The course will cover architectural aspects of the construction of the ancient Egyptian pyramids. Apparently enrollment for the course has already exceeded the maximum number of students that was scheduled for the course. I wonder if he’ll be [...]

There has been a lot of talk over recent years of the weathering of the sphinx on the Giza plateau. Other monuments on the plateau are also suffering from erosion as the wind combined with the desert sands has the effect of an industrial strength sand blaster. 3D model simulates potential wind erosion Efforts to [...]