Talking Pyramids

It’s been a while since the last Talking Pyramids Poll was released and so much has happened in Egypt in the past few months. A focus of Talking Pyramids has always been to keep up to date with the current status of each pyramid, whether or not it is open and accessible to the public.

Menkaure’s Basalt Sarcophagus Egypt’s Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni has announced that the joint Egyptian-Spanish mission to search for Menkaure’s sunken sarcophagus will commence in early March 2011. The black basalt sarcophagus was lost while being transported back to England aboard the Beatrice when the ship was wrecked at sea off the coast of Spain, [...]

It’s always fun to have a bit of interaction and feedback from you, the readers of Talking Pyramids. A small part of this interactivity is the poll that appears on the right side, just below the Delicious Links. The last poll asked what theory you favoured to explain the construction of the Great Pyramid. Among [...]

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 [...]

Some of you might have followed Leena’s last painting, Cleopatra & Caesarion from the back wall of the temple of Hathor at Denderah. Leena at work on Cleopatra & Caesarion Utelising the power of the Internet, every few days Leena would share her latest developments with us by posting photos on her blog, Ancient Egyptian [...]

Over the past few days I’ve been in contact with Todd who is currently in Cairo. Although it is difficult to get around to the back of Menkaure’s pyramid Todd has managed to take a photograph of some excavations currently underway on the east side of Menkaure’s pyramid on the Giza Plateau. Excavations at Menkaure [...]

An update on the state of some of the pyramids from Heidi who has just returned from Egypt. Water threatens the pyramid at Hawara The ground water at Hawara is high. So high in fact that the subterranean chambers of the pyramid of Amenemhet III at Hawara are totally submerged under water. Anyone trying to [...]