Talking Pyramids

Nubian Pyramids This morning saw a continuation of the rewrapping of the mummy known as the “Anonymous Man”. There will be one final day on Tuesday when they’ll wrap things up…literally. Sorry, couldn’t resist that one. There was a very brief but interesting video on the website of Dr Hawass today about producing a very [...]

The Brooklyn Museum returns to the lab today to re-wrap the “Anonymous Man” to prepare him for display in the Mummy Chamber exhibition. Shelly Bernstein, the Brooklyn Museum’s Chief of Technology, is live blogging the event again on Twitter, coming to you direct from the lab. She’ll be giving us a running commentary on what [...]

Quite a bit of news today and a few announcements of upcoming lectures. This old video of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb popped up in this morning’s news hunt: PHOTO: 12th Dynasty Ancient Egyptian Magic Wand, made from a hippopotamus tusk: http://bit.ly/4WlzOE # Zahi Hawass in London for a book signing at the Waterstone's book [...]

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 [...]

Time for a light-hearted look at how the Egyptians built the pyramids. This short video reveals how the king’s image came to be depicted on the stone walls of temples and tombs. For many more videos visit the Talking Pyramids YouTube channel

National Geographic’s Egypt Unwrapped series addresses the age of the Sphinx and again, I thought I’d share a few snippets with you. Geologist Colin Reader looks at the Sphinx at Giza and discusses the weathering issue. Like Schwaller de Lubicz, John Anthony West and fellow geologist Robert Schoch, Reader is of the opinion that evidence [...]

Here is a bit of a wrap up of the past week’s main pyramid news stories, starting with the blog of Zahi Hawass. ‘Black’ pyramid remains closed The ‘Black’ pyramid of Amenemhet III Hawass wrote about the pyramid of Amenemhet III at Dahshur. This is also sometimes called the ‘Black’ pyramid due to its colour [...]