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Astronaut Sends Pyramid Photo via Twitter

Mar 6, 2010 2:00pm

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...

Friday Photo: Pyramid Texts – Unas Blue

Mar 5, 2010 4:09pm

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...

Burial Chamber with Pyramid Texts Discovered

Mar 4, 2010 3:24am

Pyramid Texts from the north wall A burial chamber containing a pink granite sarcophagus with a black basalt lid has been discovered at South Saqqara by a French archaeological mission. Although badly damaged, the walls are covered in texts which contain the name of the tomb’s owner, ‘Behenu’, thought to...

Friday Photo: First Steps Into Khufu Pyramid

Feb 26, 2010 5:02pm

First Steps into Khufu's Pyramid, by Sean Ellis Access to the interior of the Great Pyramid is not through the original entrance as many would think. That entrance is now sealed with a locked gate and instead, tourists enter through the crude tunnel dug by Calif Mamun and his men...

Friday Photo: First Steps Into Khufu Pyramid

Feb 26, 2010 5:02pm

First Steps into Khufu's Pyramid, by Sean Ellis Access to the interior of the Great Pyramid is not through the original entrance as many would think. That entrance is now sealed with a locked gate and instead, tourists enter through the crude tunnel dug by Calif Mamun and his men...

Entering New Egyptian Pyramids

Feb 19, 2010 9:34pm

Amenemhet III's 'Black' pyramid A series of lectures will be given by Egyptologist Gayle Gibson at the Royal Ontario Museum on the last Wednesday of each month. ROM Egyptologist Gayle Gibson returns to Egypt in January 2010. This time she will be in Dashur crawling around in three of the biggest Pyramids...

Entering New Egyptian Pyramids

Feb 19, 2010 9:34pm

Amenemhet III's 'Black' pyramid A series of lectures will be given by Egyptologist Gayle Gibson at the Royal Ontario Museum on the last Wednesday of each month. ROM Egyptologist Gayle Gibson returns to Egypt in January 2010. This time she will be in Dashur crawling around in three of the biggest Pyramids...