Talking Pyramids

My previous post on the use of 3D Models of the Sphinx and pyramids to predict weathering prompted a few post from fellow bloggers around the web. One of these was by Andie Byrnes, who also mentioned another similar effort by an Egyptian team as reported in Scientific Computing. Sphinx Perspective, by Oberazzi CC By [...]

The Sphinx as seen in the late 19th century This week’s Friday Photo is of the Sphinx at Giza. Click on the image to see the accompanying annotations, drawings and information about Egyptian deities. The Riddle of the Sphinx has been solved by an inscription at Edfu which shows it to be a transformation of [...]

National Geographic’s Egypt Unwrapped series addresses the age of the Sphinx and again, I thought I’d share a few snippets with you. Geologist Colin Reader looks at the Sphinx at Giza and discusses the weathering issue. Like Schwaller de Lubicz, John Anthony West and fellow geologist Robert Schoch, Reader is of the opinion that evidence [...]

Unravelling the Riddle of the Sphinx With the scanning of Djoser’s Step pyramid complete the lasers then focused firmly on the Sphinx at Giza. Beginning in 1979 Mark Lehner undertook a five-year project of mapping the Sphinx, after which he founded the Giza Mapping Project with the much grander goal of mapping the entire plateau. [...]

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 [...]

When Mark Lehner first travelled to Egypt in 1973 with the hope of discovering the fabled ‘Hall of Records’ thought to be located beneath the paws of the Sphinx he probably didn’t imagine he’d end up staying for over a decade and finding a ‘Lost City’. Lehner, who has become one of the leading figures [...]

NEWS FLASH! News report just in from BBC. Massive statues unearthed in Sphinx excavation. In more serious Sphinx-related news, Channel Five will be showing a documentary on Thursday at 8pm called “The Secrets of Egypt” in which geologist Colin Reader discusses the controversy over the age of the Sphinx. Like Schwaller de Lubicz, John Anthony [...]