Talking Pyramids

The Boat Pit on the east side of Djedefre’s pyramid When I started this blog at the beginning of the year I did so with the aim of creating a useful resource to provide information about the pyramids. I began by creating the Pyramid Fields pages and offering practical information on each pyramid such as [...]

The Pyramid Texts Online website has a collection of photos of the Unas Pyramid. At the top of the Photos page is an embedded interactive satellite image of the Saqqara area that is used to display some of the images. Each image is positioned according to the photographer’s location. There is also a Google Earth [...]

Satellite image of the Nile Still on the topic of the use of satellites in Archaeology, the University of Arkansas is helping archaeologists by providing them with satellite imagery as old as 40 years to see what archaeological sites looked like before the spread of cities encroached on them. With the aid of new technology [...]

An archaeological site at Cahuachi – photo by Ed88. CC Some Rights Reserved. In another example of the use of satellites to discover archaeological sites, yesterday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome it was announced that an ancient adobe pyramid near Peru’s Cahuachi desert has been discovered with the aid of a new remote [...]

Large buried walls at Tanis More and more archaeologists are using Google Earth as a tool for discovering new archaeological sites and planning expeditions. This story from the Economist describes how some archaeologists are using Google Earth: David Thomas, a graduate student at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, belongs to a team that launched [...]

The Red and Bent pyramids as seen from the ISS The Pyramids of Dahshur were recently photographed by an Expedition 17 crewmember on the International Space Station. Easily observable in the image are the Red pyramid and Bent pyramid both built by Khufu’s father Sneferu. The pyramid complexes of Amenemhat III and Senwosret III can [...]