Talking Pyramids

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 [...]

Camels operators gather at Giza Zahi Hawass has appeared in a recent article in Al-Ahram once again explaining his push to ‘clean up’ the Giza Plateau. He talks about the criticism the project has received from local camel operaters, who’s livelihoods depend on the tourists. Hawass explains that everyone benefits with the new system as [...]

Work is underway at Giza to complete the Grand Egyptian Museum by 2012 This week we return once again to the Giza plateau with this recent observation. Talking Pyramids reader and explorer Leszek Zadlo snapped this photo of some large earth moving trucks on the south-west corner of the plateau. They appear to be working [...]

A distant perspective of the pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre and Khufu shot from the south-east corner of the Giza plateau. The persistent presence of the pigeons on the plateau has been a concern for a number of years now. They have made a habit of nesting in crevices on the Sphinx, such as the eye [...]

Giza Mastabas VIII: Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery G 2100, Major Mastabas G 2100-2220 By Peter Der Manuelian I was contacted this morning by Peter Der Manuelian who is the Lecturer in Egyptology at Tufts University and the Director of the Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Anyone interested in the Giza [...]

Battle of the Pyramids The Battle of the Pyramids, also known as the Battle of Embabeh, was a battle fought on July 21, 1798 between the French army in Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte, and local Mamluk forces. It occurred during France’s Egyptian Campaign and was the battle where Napoleon put into use one of his [...]