Talking Pyramids

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 [...]

Heidelberg University HEIDI: The University of Heidelberg’s Library Catalogue has a range of books on Ancient Egypt that can be viewed online or downloaded and printed out. Here are just a few examples of books that can be found there: Richard A. Proctor: The Great Pyramid: observatory, tomb, and temple William M. Flinders Petrie: Tanis [...]

I thought I’d start a new schedule of reviewing an Egyptology website each week. This week’s website review is on the Giza Archives Project. The Giza Archives Project Website The Giza Archives Project is a very useful and comprehensive online resource for anyone interested in the Giza Necropolis. Excavations that have occurred in the area [...]

A message from Saint Simian: Hello to all Egyptologists with computers, I’ve been working on a web application to help us all with our Hieroglyphic texts. It’s a Hieroglyphic dictionary wiki, like Wikipedia’s wiktionary except for Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs. A wiki is like a website where everyone can edit the pages. When everyone can edit [...]

‘They Were Not Slaves’ – Mark Lehner Marking the end of the 6 part series How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built?’ is an article written by Jonathan Shaw for Harvard Magazine on the discovery of the ‘city of the pyramid builders’ by Mark Lehner. Lehner tells how he first travelled to Egypt in 1973 with [...]

Houdin’s Internal Ramp French Architect Jean-Pierre Houdin has a revolutionary theory on how the pyramids were built. He looked at the three main existing theories: the large long straight ramp used to drag the stone up on sleds or rolled on logs, the wooden ‘machines’ mentioned by Herodotus & the spiral ramp theory. None of [...]

Were the pyramids made of concrete? The question of how the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built is one that has occupied the minds of many for thousands of years. Many interesting theories have been developed over that time and one that has recently made the news is that of the concrete pyramid. In today’s article [...]