Talking Pyramids

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 [...]

The Egyptian Museum As you’ve probably already heard the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir square in Cairo was ransacked and 70 items (reports differ, some say 100) were reportedly damaged and the heads of two mummies were removed. The Museum’s gift shop was completely cleared out by thieves. The following is a look at who was [...]

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 [...]

Rubbish beside Khafre’s pyramid While Dr Zahi Hawass is still in charge of managing the Giza plateau he aims to make a tourist’s visit to the pyramids more enjoyable by getting rid of the hawkers and souvenir sellers and the vehicles that are damaging the site. Zahi is putting an end to this with the [...]

Blue green faience tiles from Djoser’s South Tomb. CC By NC ND Tybo. In a recent post on his blog Dr Zahi Hawass wrote about the restoration efforts that are ongoing at Saqqara. He spoke about the SCA’s continuation of Egyptologist Jean-Philippe Lauer’s restoration work at the site and how the north side of Djoser’s [...]

For those of you who missed National Geographic’s recent premier of Egypt Unwrapped: The Pyramid Code I’ve gathered up some short excerpts for you here. There are some interesting behind the scenes videos that are worth watching. I was particularly interested in this next video where we see behind the scenes as the National Geographic [...]

In the previous post on the ‘Giza Caves’ we heard Zahi Hawass give his opinion of the cave system referred to by Andrew Collins. Within moments of posting that article Andrew Collins shot back with a response from himself and Nigel Skinner-Simpson to Zahi Hawass. I post it here in full for you to read: [...]