Talking Pyramids

In three days time Jean-Pierre Houdin and Dassault Systèmes will be at a conference in La Géode to reveal ‘Khufu Reborn’, the sequel to Jean-Pierre’s internal spiral ramp theory. Fellow bloggers Keith Payne from EmHotep & Marc Chartier from Pyramidales will be there along with Kate Bourdet from Dassault Systèmes to report on the event. [...]

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 [...]

Giza Plateau Some discussion has taken place recently over the topic of Djedefre’s pyramid being built at a more elevated level than that of Khufu with the release of the History Channel special “The Lost Pyramid”. Now a paper written by Suzanne Raynaud, Henri de la Boisse, Farid Mahmoud Makroum, & Joel Bertho entitled “Geological [...]

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 [...]