Egypt
- Online Paper: Examining The Grand Gallery In The Pyramid Of Khufu
PalArch Luca Miatello. 2010. Examining the Grand Gallery in the Pyramid of Khufu and its Features. PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 7(6) (2010) Abstract The explanation of the symmetrical features on the west and east sides of the...
- 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....
- 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...
- The Pyramid Of Userkare
Archaeologists are searching at south Saqqara for the pyramid tomb of the ephemeral second king of the sixth dynasty Userkare....
Egypt
Online paper: Archaeoastronomy and Archaeo-Topography as Tools in the Search for a Missing Egyptian Pyramid
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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 the royal pyramids of the 6th Egyptian Dynasty, that of the second king, Userkare, is missing. This Pharaoh, however, ruled long enough – two to four years – to plan his pyramid on the ground and have the workers excavate the substructure. Userkare’s unfinished tomb might therefore be buried in the sands of the Memphite necropolis, possibly with a copy of the Pyramid Texts carved on its walls. In the present paper, methods based on archaeo-topography and archaeoastronomy have been applied with the aim of finding the possible location of the building site of this monument.
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 the royal pyramids of the 6th Egyptian Dynasty, that of the second king, Userkare, is missing. This Pharaoh, however, ruled long enough – two to four years – to plan his pyramid on the ground and have the workers excavate the substructure. Userkare’s unfinished tomb might therefore be buried in the sands of the Memphite necropolis, possibly with a copy of the Pyramid Texts carved on its walls. In the present paper, methods based on archaeo-topography and archaeoastronomy have been applied with the aim of finding the possible location of the building site of this monument.
- Online Paper: Examining The Grand Gallery In The Pyramid Of Khufu
PalArch Luca Miatello. 2010. Examining the Grand Gallery in the Pyramid of Khufu and its Features. PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 7(6) (2010) Abstract The explanation of the symmetrical features on the west and east sides of the...
- 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....
- 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...
- The Pyramid Of Userkare
Archaeologists are searching at south Saqqara for the pyramid tomb of the ephemeral second king of the sixth dynasty Userkare....