Talking Pyramids

The second boat in it’s tomb The restoration of the second Khufu boat began yesterday as planned with the collection of samples of wood from the boat. The boats were made from Lebanese cedar and Egyptian acacia trees. Mustafa Amin, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities: “The boat was found in a complete shape, [...]

Khufu’s second solar boat will soon be displayed in it’s own museum beside the Great Pyramid with an announcement to be made Monday. Khufu’s 1st Solar boat in it’s own museum built above it’s grave At an international press conference held on Egypt’s Giza Plateau next Monday, Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim [...]

Inside Khufu’s 2nd solar boat pit Today the second solar boat of Khufu that lies beside his pyramid was unveiled to the public. The first boat was discovered in 1954 and now resides in a museum built especially to display the boat located directly above it’s pit on the south side of the pyramid. Three [...]

Beside the pyramid of Khufu there are five boat pits. Actually seven pits have been found but two of these belong to the queens’ pyramids being located between satellite pyramids GI-b & GI-c. The two most well known boat pits are on the south side of the pyramid while two more are located in a [...]

There are few new additions to that great web resource Giza Archives that readers will be interested in. Two of these relate to the solar boat of Khufu and the pit in which it was found in 1954. Inside the Boat Museum, located on the south side of Khufu’s pyramid. Photo by Guy Flaneur. The [...]

Egyptologist Bob Brier is to teach a course entitled “Ancient Egyptian Architecture” at the University of Louisville. The course will cover architectural aspects of the construction of the ancient Egyptian pyramids. Apparently enrollment for the course has already exceeded the maximum number of students that was scheduled for the course. I wonder if he’ll be [...]

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 [...]