Talking Pyramids

Pyramids Closed. Chaos in Egypt generates fear of attacks on monuments After the ransacking of the Egyptian Museum and due to the current situation in Egypt the pyramids of Giza have been closed and the Egyptian army on guard against any attacks. Rather than attempt to gather all the events here I’ll direct you to [...]

Statue of Sneferu in the Egyptian Museum Why are there a million mummies buried near Sneferu’s pyramid at Seila? That is the question being asked by researchers from Brigham Young University. Last year Professor Kerry Muhlestein stated that he believed the team had uncovered evidence of a unified plan and suggested we need to adjust [...]

Cat mummy x-ray, Brooklyn Museum CC BY-NC-ND The Brooklyn Museum has an update on the musuem’s animal mummy research project. In the video Lisa Bruno, head conservator of objects at the Brooklyn Museum, discusses the nature of many of the animal mummies in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. She begins her presentation, however, with the scanning [...]

Brooklyn Museum’s trip to the hospital with four of their mummies yesterday was an event not to be missed. Many of us all over the world were able to ‘tune in’ via popular social networks such as Flickr and Twitter. Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum’s technology geek, delivered a running commentary with photos as the four [...]

Tomorrow morning the Brooklyn Museum will be taking their four ancient Egyptian mummies to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset to undergo CT scanning. One of the four mummies is former royal prince of Thebes, Pasebakhaienipet, another is simply referred to as the “mystery mummy”. The aim of the scanning is to help learn more [...]

Four ushabti boxes, three canopic jars, and four sarcophagi were discovered Archaeologist from Japanese Waseda University have made another important discovery at Saqqara. Just two weeks ago over 30 mummies thought to belong to the Fifth Dynasty were discovered in an underground tomb just south of the pyramid of Unas. This time the find involves [...]

One of the wooden sarcophagi Some of the sarcophagi inside the newly discovered tomb at Saqqara have been opened. Yesterday international media were allowed into the tomb to film the opening. Inside the chamber, 22 mummies lay covered only by sand in four niches dug into the chamber’s walls. Most were badly decomposed, showing only [...]