Talking Pyramids

Following on from Thursday’s post I’d like to focus a bit more on the Pyramid Texts found in Queen Behenu’s recently discovered burial chamber. Offering texts on the north wall of the Unas sarcophagus chamber. Photo by Helmut Satzinger. I’ve been investigating the particular way in which the Pyramid Texts are arranged in Behenu’s pyramid. [...]

The Pyramid Texts were first discovered in 1880 inside the Pyamid of Unas by Gaston Maspero. Unas was the first pyramid to be inscribed with the famous corpus of texts and of the inscribed pyramids, Unas is considered to contain the most complete form of the texts. Maspero published the texts from the pyramids of [...]

For those of you who missed National Geographic’s recent premier of Egypt Unwrapped: The Pyramid Code I’ve gathered up some short excerpts for you here. There are some interesting behind the scenes videos that are worth watching. I was particularly interested in this next video where we see behind the scenes as the National Geographic [...]

Dr Zahi Hawass has a new video on his website in which he summarises his latest findings and mentions some future plans…such as: “The Great Pyramid of Khufu. As you know, we found the secret doors in the pyramid a few years ago. This month I am going to choose the team that is going [...]

One of the main functions of Talking Pyramids is to provide up-to-date information on the Egyptian pyramids. Last year Zahi Hawass announced that he wanted all Egyptian pyramids to open to the public by 2009 though I do not think this is the case. Although I try to keep the entry prices up to date [...]

Two tombs have been discovered at Saqqara dating to the reign of Unas at the end of the 5th dynasty, about 2350 BC. Tomb of Thinh, ‘Chief of the Singers’ One of the tombs is about two by three meters in size and belonged to a woman called ‘Thinh’, who was responsible for procuring entertainers [...]

The Pyramid Texts Online website has a collection of photos of the Unas Pyramid. At the top of the Photos page is an embedded interactive satellite image of the Saqqara area that is used to display some of the images. Each image is positioned according to the photographer’s location. There is also a Google Earth [...]