Talking Pyramids

The Third British Egyptology Congress organised by the EES, The Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum and University College London, is on this weekend with a great line up of speakers. Over seventy Egyptologists, archaeologists and other researchers will giving presentations. One of interest to readers of Talking Pyramids is a keynote [...]

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 [...]

More Egyptian bread photos – this one from Maryanne: The Staff of Life: http://bit.ly/6TS4EP # VOCAB: (MdC): prt-xrw, (English): voice offerings, (Hieroglyphs): http://bit.ly/7peWq7 # Zahi Hawass on the Curse of Tutankamun: http://bit.ly/7hrFGQ # Playmobil’s Egyptian Pyramid brings age of the Pharaoh’s alive: http://bit.ly/5a3q5s # The results are in and the pharaohs are a hit!; King [...]

Egyptian Flour The photo to the right is of some Egyptian flour I recently bought to try. I bake a loaf every second day or so and when I saw the packet of Egyptian flour in the shop I had to try it. Last night I made the first loaf and this morning used it [...]

PHOTO: Egyptian Artifact – Book of the Dead: http://bit.ly/8cEq22 # BOOKS: Plenty of free PDFs to download at the Giza Digital Library: Complete Giza Publications List arranged by Author: http://bit.ly/63GkCB # Has anyone read Pyramids by Joyce A. Tyldesley? I've enjoyed her other writings but not read this one: http://bit.ly/6XncT1 # VOCAB: (MdC): pw, (English): [...]

Luxor features quite a bit in today’s news and so I have added a beautiful photographic slideshow of the temple. Some of those night time views are astounding. The VOCAB tweets from the past week are combined and presented as a chart on Flickr as usual and today’s chart features the Four Sons of Horus. [...]

Here is the daily news brought to you by Talking Pyramids‘ own ‘bird on the wire’ Bennu. Lots of photos and hieroglyphs today : Photo Slideshow of the Temple of El Kab: http://bit.ly/5ZHvOF Read about the site of el Kab at Osirisnet: http://bit.ly/4v3mNo # Office Hieroglyphs: Fourth and final line of the offering ritual: en [...]