Talking Pyramids

In what appears to be a backflip on his earlier position, Dr Zahi Hawass has now confirmed there is indeed an extensive natural cave system under the Giza plateau. The ‘Giza Caves’ were explored by Colins and his wife who recorded video inside the caves. In Zahi Hawass’ earlier statements on the announcement by Collins [...]

The Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts has received the Hamer Kegan Award in recognition of outstanding efforts to promote its vast holdings of early 20th century archaeological expedition records. The Giza Archives and its accompanying web site provide unprecedented access to the records of the MFA archaeological expeditions of the early [...]

No Climbing sign on the Pyramid of Khafre Shortly after I posted the story of the eye-witness video of the removal of the man from the top of the pyramid of Khafre I received a report from another traveller on the Giza Plateau that day. Kassy sent in some photos of the incident as she [...]

Passengers on an Air India flight were recently left waiting while the airline crew went off sight seeing. While volcanic ash was responsible for grounding aircraft all over Europe it was the whim of the airline crew to go and visit the pyramids of Giza that delayed passengers at Cairo airport for 16 hours! After [...]

Experience the Giza Plateau in 3D The Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has for many years been the most extensive online resource on the archaeology of the Giza Plateau. Much of the archived material is from the 40 years of excavations carried out by Egyptologist George Reisner who led [...]

Hemiunu, Vizier to king Khufu. Photo by kairoinfo4u The return of the seated staute of Hemiunu, overseer of the construction of the Great Pyramid has been confirmed. On Sunday the Roman and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany stated that it would lend the prized statue to Egypt for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum [...]

Entrance to the ‘Giza Caves’. Photo by Larry Hunter The seemingly insignificant little tomb known as NC2, located in the north cliff of the Giza Plateau has been the source of some controversy over the past few months since author Andrew Collins published descriptions, video and photos of what he called Egypt’s Cave Underworld, accessed [...]