Talking Pyramids

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 [...]

Serge Rosmorduc has released an update to his hieroglyphic text editor, JSesh as well as two new tutorials. In an email to the Ancient Egyptian Language list (AEL) Serge writes: Version 2.5beta of JSesh, my free Hieroglyphic text editor is available. It includes a few changes: * cartouches width works correctly * encapsulated postscript export [...]

A new website was launched yesterday at a media conference organised by IBM in cooperation with Egypt’s Cultural and Natural Heritage, otherwise known as CULTNAT. The website is Egypt Memory, a place where visitors can purchase pictures, books and CDs relating to a wide variety of Egypt’s history and society. From the Daily News Egypt [...]

Zahi Hawass in 2003 In a recent interview with Andrew Bayuk, Zahi Hawass has revealed that they have discovered another pyramid at Saqqara. It is claimed that this pyramid belonged to one of the queens of Teti. Other tombs were also found at Saqqara but a formal announcement is yet to be made. The museum [...]

This year full story Visit the Wikipedia Podcast to hear Andrew Lih and Liam Wyatt give a summary of the events.

The IAE Computer Group (Informatique et Egyptologie, I&E) will be meeting in Vienna at the Kunsthistorisches Museum on the 8-11 of July this year. The conference itself will start on Wednesday the 9th and 10th. IAE 2008 meeting at the Kunsthistorisches Museum The conference fee is 30 Euros and includes a visit to the Heurigen [...]

Last Tuesday morning the American-Japanese scientific team arrived in Saqqara to commence the laser scanning of Djoser’s pyramid to create a 3D model. Creating a 3D model of Djoser It is expected to take four weeks to complete, after which a survey of the internal structure will commence as part of phase two of the [...]