Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Pyramid Texts from the recently discovered pyramid of Behenu In the EEF news this morning was the news of the online publication of Giulio Magli’s 2010 paper: Archaeoastronomy and Archaeo-Topography as Tools in the Search for a Missing Egyptian Pyramid in PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 7(5) (2010) Here is an abstract: Among the [...]

‘Behenu’ News on the discovery of the burial chamber inside the pyramid of Behenu continues with this video on the recent excavations at the site. The report mentions that pottery sherds, torn cloth and bone fragments were found in the burial chamber: “Experts are now examining what is left of Behenu’s mortal remains including what [...]

Following on from Thursday’s post I’d like to focus a bit more on the Pyramid Texts found in Queen Behenu’s recently discovered burial chamber. Offering texts on the north wall of the Unas sarcophagus chamber. Photo by Helmut Satzinger. I’ve been investigating the particular way in which the Pyramid Texts are arranged in Behenu’s pyramid. [...]

The Pyramid Texts were first discovered in 1880 inside the Pyamid of Unas by Gaston Maspero. Unas was the first pyramid to be inscribed with the famous corpus of texts and of the inscribed pyramids, Unas is considered to contain the most complete form of the texts. Maspero published the texts from the pyramids of [...]

Pyramid Texts from the north wall A burial chamber containing a pink granite sarcophagus with a black basalt lid has been discovered at South Saqqara by a French archaeological mission. Although badly damaged, the walls are covered in texts which contain the name of the tomb’s owner, ‘Behenu’, thought to be the Queen of either [...]

The Four Sons of Horus are most well known for their association with the mummification of the internal organs but there is more to these gods than containers of the dead king’s body parts. By focusing on the earliest records of the ancient Egyptian use of these four gods we’ll be letting the pyramids speak [...]

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 [...]