Talking Pyramids

As reported earlier on Twitter, a recent satellite survey has detected 17 new pyramids and more than 1000 tombs in Egypt. Two of these pyramids have already been confirmed by excavations on the ground. The discoveries were made by Dr Sarah Parcak from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who is known for her work [...]

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi is currently flying through space aboard the International Space Station and he is using Twitter to communicate with us Earthlings. He goes by the name: @Astro_Soichi He has just posted a photo of the pyramids at Dahshur. The Red pyramid and the Bent pyramid can easily be seen from space: YES, you [...]

The BYU Egypt Excavation Project, returns to Egypt in January to map Sneferu’s fourth pyramid using GPS. Professor of ancient scripture at BYU and soon to be program director, Kerry Muhlestein, believes they have uncovered evidence of a unified plan and suggests we need adjust our understanding of what the intended purpose of pyramids was: [...]

Google has upgraded the Giza area in Google Earth and Google Maps with higher resolution imagery allowing us to see the pyramids in more detail. You can now pick out people on the plateau, the trial passages referred to by Petrie, and even individual toes of the Sphinx’s front paws. I look forward to more [...]

Stefan Geens’ tour of Upper Egypt In relation to yesterday’s post, in which I talked about the use of 360Cities panoramas on the Giza pyramid field, I have just come accross a post on Ogle Earth by one of the photographers who created some of these spherical panoramas, Stefan Geens. I usually keep an eye [...]

Jebel Barkal in Google Earth Still on the topic of ‘Satellite Archaeology’ surveyor Rob Rosa, writes about using satelilites and sophisticated tools such as the Carlson SurvCE while surveying an archaeological site located at the base of Jebel Barkal, a sandstone table-mountain close to the Nile River and about 390km south of the Egyptian border. [...]

As technology evolves at an increasingly rapid rate, the study of ancient sites is aided by some of it’s developments. One such tool that has leaped into the hands of Egyptlogists and Archaeologists in recent years is the satellite. A great boon to any study of a site is the ability to view an area [...]