Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

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 [...]

At night on the Giza plateau, after the sun has set below the pyramids, the coloured lights come out and dance all over the sphinx and pyramids in a specticle that is famously known as the “Sound and Light Show”.
Now, after thirty years of service the curtains are closing for the old [...]

Mark Vygus has updated his excellent dictionary. The dictionary, which can be downloaded (8.3 mb) for free, is a very usefull addition to any linguist’s tool box. Having such a dictionary in digital format enables one to quickly and easily search the entire repository of over 30 500 words.
The format [...]

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 [...]

There has been a lot of talk over recent years of the weathering of the sphinx on the Giza plateau. Other monuments on the plateau are also suffering from erosion as the wind combined with the desert sands has the effect of an industrial strength sand blaster.

3D model simulates potential wind erosion

Efforts to [...]

This probably seems a bit like a commercial for the iPhone but when I saw this I couldn’t resist posting it here. It’s an iPhone app that would be really useful for anyone studying the ancient Egyptian language.
From the developer’s website:
English and French dictionary, Aaou is a hieroglyph dictionary, which currently contains [...]

Serge Rosmorduc wrote in a message to the AEL discussion group that a new version of JSesh has been released. Here is his message:
Dear all,
You can now download release 2.11.5 of my free hieroglyphic processor JSesh at http://jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/en/node/1366
New in this version :
JSesh version 2.11.5 brings a number of new features :
* S. Thomas has [...]