Talking Pyramids

Bennu was spotted by Wilks Rendai hovering around ‘Gantenbrink’s Door’ in the southern shaft of the Queen’s chamber in Khufu’s pyramid. “It was his blue-green plumage that gave him away”. said Wilks.

Games were, and still are, very popular in Egypt. Today locals in almost every coffee shop in Egypt are playing backgammon everyday. I couldn’t believe how popular the game was when I walked around Cairo for the first time. They play at lightning speed too! Well, backgammon is very similar to an Ancient Egyptian game [...]

Who is Bennu? Where is he now? What is Bennu twittering about? Bennu is a small greeny-blue heron that can be seen flitting around the ‘Pyramid Network’ formed by the following web of connecting sites: This blog: ‘Talking Pyramids’, Pyramid of Man, Pyramid Texts Online, Ancient Egyptian Pyramids, & Flickr

The BBC has a fun and educational game for children to learn about the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids and how they were built. It’s really quite authentic. The picture below, for example, shows the stage where you select the angle for your pyramid and the accompanying hieroglyphic writing is from plate 16 of the Rhind Mathematical [...]