Egypt
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown)
- Abu Rawash
drhawass.com With photo. The pyramid of Djedefre is located in Abu Rawash, about eight kilometers north of Giza. Djedefre, the son of Khufu, ascended the throne after his father’s death. We know that Djedefre was Khufu’s heir because his name was...
- Excavatons At The Pyramid Of Menkaure
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Thanks to Vincent and his reader Todd for sharing photographs of an area adjacent to the pyramid of Menkaure at Giza where excavations of some sort are apparently underway with the aid of heavy machinery. See the above...
- More Re Egypt To Open Chambers Of Bent Pyramid
Deseret News (Paul Schemm) Travelers to Egypt will soon be able to explore the inner chambers of the 4,500-year-old "bent" pyramid, known for its oddly shaped profile, and other nearby ancient tombs. The increased access to the pyramids south of Cairo...
- Secret Chamber Discovered In The Great Pyramid
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Breaking in the news this morning was the announcement of a new discovery: Egyptologist Bob Brier has discovered a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid! Apparently the discovery was made while investigating the merits...
- Met Chooses Tapestries Curator To Lead Museum
New York Times Ending months of fervid speculation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached into its ranks on Tuesday and chose Thomas P. Campbell, a 46-year-old British-born tapestries curator, to succeed Philippe de Montebello as director and chief executive....
Egypt
Looting at Met’s Excavations in Dahshur
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown)
Thomas Campbell, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art speaks of how the looting has effected their excavation site in Dahshur:
JEFFREY BROWN: Tell us about the site. What kind of work goes on there? And the attacks, what do you know about the attacks at this point?
THOMAS CAMPBELL: It’s a middle kingdom pyramid, a brick pyramid, now in a state of partial collapse. We’ve been excavating there for the last couple of decades, recreating, rediscovering the causeway that led down to the Nile, painstakingly recovering fragments of stones that’s chipped off the blocks lining the causeway and the other buildings. These fragments, they belong to the Egyptian government; they don’t belong to us. It’s this site that we fund really for scholarly purposes. And many of these fragments are stored on site, and so far as we understand the warehouse has been broken into at least on a couple of occasions.
- Abu Rawash
drhawass.com With photo. The pyramid of Djedefre is located in Abu Rawash, about eight kilometers north of Giza. Djedefre, the son of Khufu, ascended the throne after his father’s death. We know that Djedefre was Khufu’s heir because his name was...
- Excavatons At The Pyramid Of Menkaure
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Thanks to Vincent and his reader Todd for sharing photographs of an area adjacent to the pyramid of Menkaure at Giza where excavations of some sort are apparently underway with the aid of heavy machinery. See the above...
- More Re Egypt To Open Chambers Of Bent Pyramid
Deseret News (Paul Schemm) Travelers to Egypt will soon be able to explore the inner chambers of the 4,500-year-old "bent" pyramid, known for its oddly shaped profile, and other nearby ancient tombs. The increased access to the pyramids south of Cairo...
- Secret Chamber Discovered In The Great Pyramid
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Breaking in the news this morning was the announcement of a new discovery: Egyptologist Bob Brier has discovered a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid! Apparently the discovery was made while investigating the merits...
- Met Chooses Tapestries Curator To Lead Museum
New York Times Ending months of fervid speculation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached into its ranks on Tuesday and chose Thomas P. Campbell, a 46-year-old British-born tapestries curator, to succeed Philippe de Montebello as director and chief executive....