Talking Pyramids

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 [...]

Amenemhet III’s ‘Black’ pyramid A series of lectures will be given by Egyptologist Gayle Gibson at the Royal Ontario Museum on the last Wednesday of each month. ROM Egyptologist Gayle Gibson returns to Egypt in January 2010. This time she will be in Dashur crawling around in three of the biggest Pyramids in Egypt. The [...]

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 [...]

An update on the state of some of the pyramids from Heidi who has just returned from Egypt. Water threatens the pyramid at Hawara The ground water at Hawara is high. So high in fact that the subterranean chambers of the pyramid of Amenemhet III at Hawara are totally submerged under water. Anyone trying to [...]

The ‘Black’ pyramid of Amenemhet III Fresh in the news this morning is the announcement that two more pyramids will be opened to the public to visit this year. It’s not easy keeping up with what pyramids are open and which are closed. Readers of this blog know that I am continually looking for information [...]

One of the main functions of Talking Pyramids is to provide up-to-date information on the Egyptian pyramids. Last year Zahi Hawass announced that he wanted all Egyptian pyramids to open to the public by 2009 though I do not think this is the case. Although I try to keep the entry prices up to date [...]

Pyramidion of Amenemhat III, 12th Dynasty at the Egyptian Museum. Photo by Jon Bodsworth With the building of the new Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza, over 70% of the artifacts in the old Egyptian Museum in Tahrir square will be removed to be housed in the new museum. The old Museum in downtown Cairo will [...]