Talking Pyramids

The KNH Centre at the Manchester University has created a new podcast featuring Dr Joyce Tyldesley, post doc research associate Jacqueline Campbell and final year PhD student Natalie McCreesh. In the video they discuss their work on pharmacy and hair. Watch the documentary on Biomedical Egyptology: Natalie McCreesh is doing her PhD on annalysing hair [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

FORA TV has a video online featuring Dr Zahi Hawass, speaking at the Entertainment Gathering 2008 held in Monterey, California earlier this month. Hawass discusses his exploration of the shafts of the Great Pyramid, investigating the tunnels under the sphinx, identifying mummies through CT scans, and current excavations at the Valley of the Kings. As [...]

Serj Rosmorduc has updated his hieroglyphic software JSesh to eradicate some bugs, improve usability, update fonts and call for volunteers to help develop the glyph description tool. Here is his email to the Ancient Egyptian Language group: Dear all, Version 2.8.1 of JSesh, my free hieroglyphic text editor, is available. It can be found as [...]

As reported on Ancient World Bloggers Group (AWBG) a new open access Egyptological Journal has been launched by the Institut d’Egyptologie François Daumas – UMR 5140 – Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes » (Cnrs) – niversité Paul Valéry – Montpellier III The ENiM website From the ENiM: ENiM is the first French magazine digital Egyptology. It [...]

The digitally restored White Chapel in GoogleEarth Listed in the items recently added to ABZU, is ‘Digital Karnak’, the latest addition to the growing number of archeological sites being digitally recreated online to provide wider accessibility. The Digital Karnak Project, built by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), is no small website. There [...]