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 Sphinx before being cleared. Ancient mud brick walls surrounding the Sphinx have been discovered during a routine excavation on the Giza plateau. The walls date to the reign of King Thuthmose IV, about 1400 BC. From the website of Dr Zahi Hawass: Dr. Hawass stated that the newly discovered wall consists of two parts: [...]

A tomb dating to the Fifth Dynasty, about 2465 – 2323 BC, has been discovered to the south of the tombs of the workers who built the pyramids on the Giza plateau. The discovery by an Egyptian archaeological team from the Supreme Council of Antiquities was announced by culture minister Farouk Hosny in a press [...]

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 [...]

Following on from the story a couple of weeks ago of the removal of a man from the top of the pyramid of Khafre at Giza, a recent visitor Kassy Humphreys has sent in some photos that she snapped of the event. Military remove man from the top of Khafre’s pyramid after a night at [...]

Khafre was the builder of the second pyramid on the Giza plateau. This diorite statue of Khafre was found by Mariette in the Granite temple near the Sphinx. It currently resides in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Statue of Khafre If you click on the photo you can see the larger complete image, on the [...]

Here is another stereoscopic photograph taken in 1931 of the Graf Zeppelin’s rendezvous with the eternal desert and the pyramids of Giza. It was taken from the top of the Great pyramid and shows the zeppelin above the pyramid of Khafre. You can put your special stereoscope back in your pocket, you wont be needing [...]