Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Explore the area around Sesheshet’s pyramid A summary of what we know about Sesheshet and her pyramid appeared this morning on the Haaretz website. From the article: Dr. Deborah Sweeney, an expert on ancient Egypt from the archaeology department of Tel Aviv University, says researchers assume that Sesheshet belonged to the close circle of the [...]

Explore the area around Sesheshet’s pyramid The National Geographic has an update on the excavation of the pyramid of Sesheshet. A little bit more information has been released about the find. Earlier reports of the sarcophagus having been previously opened by tomb robbers has turned out not to be the case. I had thought it [...]

Remains of Sesheshet. Photo: Reuters handout Remains of an ancient Egyptian mummy, thought to be those of Queen Sesheshet have been found inside the newly discovered pyramid at Saqqara. The pyramid was discovered in November last year and since then Egyptian archaeologists have been excavating the pyramid looking for confirmation that this pyramid did in [...]

Pyramid Texts on the walls of Teti’s pyramid. Photo by Jon Bodsworth. The Pyramid Texts that cover the walls of the pyramid of Unas are the most well known but several other pyramids were also elaborately inscribed with these important religious texts. Sarcophagus of Teti. Photo by Jon Bodsworth Teti, who came to power directly [...]

Fishing & fowling scene from the much later New Kingdom tomb of Nakht Associate lecturer of Egyptology at Macquarie University, Dr Alexandra Woods has been studying the Old Kingdom tomb paintings of the king’s officials at the cemetery of Teti at Saqqara for several years now. She presented the results of her work at the [...]