Egypt
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
- Online Paper: Archaeoastronomy And Archaeo-topography As Tools In The Search For A Missing Egyptian Pyramid
www.palarch.nl Available online free of charge as a PDF. Giulio Magli. 2010 Archaeoastronomy and Archaeo-Topography as Tools in the Search for a Missing Egyptian Pyramid PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 7(5) (2010) Abstract Among...
- More On Locating Userkare's Lost Pyramid
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With diagrams. Vincent has done an excellent summary and analysis of the recently reported attempts to discover the pyramid of Userkare at Saqqara. The location of the lost pyramid of Userkare may have been found with...
- Conference Report: Discoveries At Seilla Pyramid
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) With photographs. Thanks to Owen Jarus for pointing me at the above article about recent work carried out at the pyramid at Seila. Here's a short extract. A Brigham Young team excavated the pyramid in the 1980’s and 1990’s....
- Pyramids Of Egypt - One Grand Plan?
Discovery Channel News (Rossella Lorenzi) Two of the pyramids of Giza, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, were conceived as a single project--a sort of grandiose stage show to represent the final and most important part of a pharaoh's...
- Riddle Of The Pyramids
Al Ahram Weekly (Assam Deif) Speaking of Egypt, it is the Pyramids that spring to mind. Their grandeur, their mystery and their architecture have caused more debate than any other structure on Earth. Since the time of Herodotus geographers and historians...
Egypt
Giza Pyramids Align Toward City of Sun God
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
Some of Egypt's most magnificent pyramids were deliberately designed to follow a pattern of invisible diagonal lines, an Italian study has concluded.
According to Giulio Magli, professor of archaeoastronomy at Milan's Polytechnic University, these invisible lines would connect most of the funerary complexes raised by the kings of the Old Kingdom between 2630 and 2323 B.C.
"Following these diagonals, it appears clear that the arrangement of the monuments was carefully chosen in order to satisfy a number of criteria, which include dynastic lineage, religion and astronomical alignments," Magli told Discovery News.
Published on the Cornell University physics Web site arXiv.org, the study examined the chronology and geographical location of all the pyramids of the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties, from the Step Pyramid of Djoser (2630-2611 B.C.) to the now-collapsed pyramid of Unas (2356-2323 B.C.), both in Saqqara.
- Online Paper: Archaeoastronomy And Archaeo-topography As Tools In The Search For A Missing Egyptian Pyramid
www.palarch.nl Available online free of charge as a PDF. Giulio Magli. 2010 Archaeoastronomy and Archaeo-Topography as Tools in the Search for a Missing Egyptian Pyramid PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 7(5) (2010) Abstract Among...
- More On Locating Userkare's Lost Pyramid
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With diagrams. Vincent has done an excellent summary and analysis of the recently reported attempts to discover the pyramid of Userkare at Saqqara. The location of the lost pyramid of Userkare may have been found with...
- Conference Report: Discoveries At Seilla Pyramid
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) With photographs. Thanks to Owen Jarus for pointing me at the above article about recent work carried out at the pyramid at Seila. Here's a short extract. A Brigham Young team excavated the pyramid in the 1980’s and 1990’s....
- Pyramids Of Egypt - One Grand Plan?
Discovery Channel News (Rossella Lorenzi) Two of the pyramids of Giza, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, were conceived as a single project--a sort of grandiose stage show to represent the final and most important part of a pharaoh's...
- Riddle Of The Pyramids
Al Ahram Weekly (Assam Deif) Speaking of Egypt, it is the Pyramids that spring to mind. Their grandeur, their mystery and their architecture have caused more debate than any other structure on Earth. Since the time of Herodotus geographers and historians...