Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

The Boat Pit on the east side of Djedefre’s pyramid When I started this blog at the beginning of the year I did so with the aim of creating a useful resource to provide information about the pyramids. I began by creating the Pyramid Fields pages and offering practical information on each pyramid such as [...]

Tonight at 7pm the History Channel is re-airing the ‘Lost Pyramid’. The Newsweek website has an interactive feature that gives an overview of the program. The so-called ‘Lost Pyramid’ of Djedefre The Star Online today has an article promoting the airing of ‘The Lost Pyramid’. In it Dr Zahi Hawass is quoted as declaring that [...]

Next Monday the History Channel will air a documentary called “The Lost Pyramid”. The documentary sensationally refers to the pyramid of Djedefre as “The Lost Fourth Pyramid of Giza”, even though Egyptologists have been well aware of this pyramid for over a hundred years, it first being investigated by John Perring and later by Flinders [...]

Here is a video on the pyramid of Djedefre at Abu Roash that uses computer generated imagery to show what the pyramid might have once looked like. The accompanying story is in Italian: Il mistero della quarta piramide “La più bella, alta e preziosa” and Archaeologist, Andie, who runs the best Egyptology blog on the [...]