Talking Pyramids

Yesterday the Giza 3D Project was launched at a gala event at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). Peter Der Manuelian After the event I caught up virtually with Peter Der Manuelian, Giza Archives Director at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology at Harvard University, and Mehdi [...]

World leading 3D software company Dassault Systémes and Harvard University last night officially unveiled Giza 3D to the world at a gala event at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). It presents the results of over a 100 years of work by the MFA and Harvard University expedition led by George Reisner in the [...]

The Masonic pyramid on the US $1 note The pyramids at Giza will be closed today in order to avoid rituals that were planned to be carried out there on the 11/11/11. Atef Abu Zahab, head of the Department of Pharaonic Archaeology said that the decision to close the pyramids only came “after much pressure” [...]

A new electronic ticket system to enter the Giza Plateau was scheduled to begin operating Monday after a series of successful experiments in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense. 

 The system mechanically automates ticket-selling to those visiting the Giza Plateau. It is hoped that the new system will make visitor entry more organised. The [...]

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 [...]

A bomb has exploded at Giza about 150 meters from the pyramids badly injuring three people. Initial reports stated that the three injured were men who sold tourist trinkets but now it is being reported that they were children, one boy having lost part of his arm. From: Al-Masry Al-Youm: It was not clear how [...]

Pottery at the Giza Plateau Mapping Project storeroom, by Scott D. Haddow. CC By NC SA Reports just in this morning indicate that looting continues in the pyramid fields with the raiding of storage warehouses south of Giza early yesterday morning. Six guards and a policeman at the warehouses were bound and gagged by about [...]