Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Cat mummy x-ray, Brooklyn Museum CC BY-NC-ND The Brooklyn Museum has an update on the musuem’s animal mummy research project. In the video Lisa Bruno, head conservator of objects at the Brooklyn Museum, discusses the nature of many of the animal mummies in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. She begins her presentation, however, with the scanning [...]

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. [...]

Brooklyn Museum’s trip to the hospital with four of their mummies yesterday was an event not to be missed. Many of us all over the world were able to ‘tune in’ via popular social networks such as Flickr and Twitter. Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum’s technology geek, delivered a running commentary with photos as the four [...]

Tomorrow morning the Brooklyn Museum will be taking their four ancient Egyptian mummies to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset to undergo CT scanning. One of the four mummies is former royal prince of Thebes, Pasebakhaienipet, another is simply referred to as the “mystery mummy”. The aim of the scanning is to help learn more [...]

Learning ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs can be difficult. From having to remember the individual hieroglyphs, the vocabulary and grammatical structure of the sentences, to the transliteration techniques and Manual deCodage codes. It’s like having to learn several languages at the same time. Many people find it all too overwhelming and give up not long after starting. [...]

In the previous post, Biomedical Egyptology, we saw how the team at the University of Manchester are using multidisciplinary, investigative methods using tissue and hair samples of ancient Egyptian Mummies to scientifically analyse and understand ancient Egyptian pharmacy and pharmacology. Purchase the Book from the Talking Pyramids Book Shop In their book Egyptian Mummies and [...]

Serge Rosmorducwrote in a message to the AEL discussion group that a new version of JSesh has been released. Here is his message: Dear all, I have just released a new version of JSesh. The main new features are: * New families from S. Thomas : “M” and “O” families are now complete. * Improved [...]