Talking Pyramids

Behenu’s Pyramid Texts A workshop on pyramids is to be held at Geijersalen, Engelska Parken, Uppsala University over two days, May 31st and June 1st. Speakers will include such notables as Denis Searby, Peter Jánosi, Miroslav Barta, Tarek el-Awady, Jaromir Krejci, Mark Lehner, Catherine Berger, Harold Hays, Roman Gundacker, Nils Billing and Erika Meyer-Dietrich. There [...]

I’ve received a report from Maryanne Stroud Gabbani, who lives in Egypt, of an illegal road being built through the desert north of Abu Sir. Maryanne included many photos of the new road as well as some sensitive areas that are being quarried. Rubbish is also being dumped in the area. Trucks are dumping here [...]

Pyramid of Amenemhet I Another update from Zahi Hawass on the current state of things at some of the pyramid fields: At Lischt, a famous site containing the Middle Kingdom pyramid of Amenemhat I, looters have broken into tombs many times, and there are illegal excavations taking place at night. I have heard rumors that in [...]

Inside the pyramid of Unas Today’s update brings a bitter sweet combination of news on the state of Egypt’s antiquities. Museum The good news is that the limestone statue of Akhenaten holding an offering table was reportedly found in a rubbish bin outside the museum by a young boy. The statue was found to be [...]

Pyramids of Dahshur as seen from Saqqara Reports in the news this morning are that pyramids at Saqqara and storage magazines at Abusir have been broken into. Pyramids of Pepi I and Djedkare Isesi have been opened along with magazines in South Saqqara. Both Abusir and Saqqara are reported to have suffered a lot of [...]

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 [...]

The Abusir Pyramid Fields A fully intact tomb of an Egyptian dignitary dating to 2500 BC has been discovered by a Czech team in the Abusir pyramid fields. Egyptologists have long enjoyed an impressive reputation for their work in Abusir, Egypt, but even they admit one doesn’t make a find such as this one everyday: [...]