Talking Pyramids

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 [...]

It’s been a while since the last Talking Pyramids Poll was released and so much has happened in Egypt in the past few months. A focus of Talking Pyramids has always been to keep up to date with the current status of each pyramid, whether or not it is open and accessible to the public.

It’s always fun to have a bit of interaction and feedback from you, the readers of Talking Pyramids. A small part of this interactivity is the poll that appears on the right side, just below the Delicious Links. The last poll asked what theory you favoured to explain the construction of the Great Pyramid. Among [...]

In the past it has been a struggle to keep up to date with which sites are open to visitors and those that are closed. I keep in regular contact with sources in Egypt as well as travellers who have recently visited the sites. I have used news websites, blogs, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other [...]

I appologise for some of the problems you have noticed with the blog over the past few days. My web host has decided to turn off certain basic functionallity to increase security. This measure is a bit over the top to say the least. While the blog is now more secure, this change has resulted [...]

* Bastet * – by Pareeerica CC by NC ND 2.0 It was back in January 2008 that I began Talking Pyramids and I’ve enjoyed running the blog over that time. Thinking about the future and areas to improve upon, I have been reflecting on how the blog has grown during it’s relatively short life. [...]