Egypt
- Secret Chambers At Great Pyramid Proposed
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) A French architect campaigning for a new exploration of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza said on Thursday that the edifice may contain two chambers housing funereal furniture. Jean-Pierre Houdin -- who was rebuffed...
- Travel: A Hiking Tour Of Egyptian Sites
Los Angeles Times (Kathryn Wilkens) Most time-strapped visitors take a bus to the pyramids, but we were on a walking tour. Our group of 14, along with our guide, Egyptologist Inas Hassan, set out from the hotel, continuing uphill past the Great Pyramid...
- Last Of The Ancient Wonders: The Great Pyramid
Al Ahram Weekly (Assam Deif) It has variously been claimed that the pyramids served as power plants, water pumps, astronomical observatories, sources of ill-defined pyramid- power energy vortices, guidance beacons for alien spacecraft sites for mystery...
- Curse Of The Pharaohs At Giza
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=8832The old chestnut comes out for another airing but this time beyond the realm of Tutankhamun. In spite of talk about curses, and car engines catching fire, the story is an interesting account of the...
- Experiencing The Great Pyramid
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/95cbb922-ebb4-11da-b3e2-0000779e2340.html A feature on the Financial Times website about the Great Pyramid of Giza: "Life and death were addressed explicitly in the art of the pharaohs. The granite slab was the final resting place...
Egypt
Saving the Great Pyramid in the 19th Century
http://tinyurl.com/895c5 (MakFax)
This brief article keeps popping up: "An Albanian with Macedonian origin, Muhammad Ali Pasha, ruler of Egypt, Syria and Arabia in 19th century, had ordered his French engineer Linan to pull down the Cheops Pyramid. . . . According to documents, the then Egypt ruler Muhammad Ali wanted to remove stone blocks from their pyramid in order to build a dam on the Nile River. French engineer Linan along with the then French consul in Cairo, were well aware of the historic value of the pyramid and they told the pasha of Egypt that pyramid's stones are four times bigger than the ones needed for dam construction."
See the above short item for more. The reason that I've repeated it is that I've remembered a very entertaining and much more detailed account of the full story on the American Scientist website, at
http://tinyurl.com/jux87
- Secret Chambers At Great Pyramid Proposed
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) A French architect campaigning for a new exploration of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza said on Thursday that the edifice may contain two chambers housing funereal furniture. Jean-Pierre Houdin -- who was rebuffed...
- Travel: A Hiking Tour Of Egyptian Sites
Los Angeles Times (Kathryn Wilkens) Most time-strapped visitors take a bus to the pyramids, but we were on a walking tour. Our group of 14, along with our guide, Egyptologist Inas Hassan, set out from the hotel, continuing uphill past the Great Pyramid...
- Last Of The Ancient Wonders: The Great Pyramid
Al Ahram Weekly (Assam Deif) It has variously been claimed that the pyramids served as power plants, water pumps, astronomical observatories, sources of ill-defined pyramid- power energy vortices, guidance beacons for alien spacecraft sites for mystery...
- Curse Of The Pharaohs At Giza
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=8832The old chestnut comes out for another airing but this time beyond the realm of Tutankhamun. In spite of talk about curses, and car engines catching fire, the story is an interesting account of the...
- Experiencing The Great Pyramid
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/95cbb922-ebb4-11da-b3e2-0000779e2340.html A feature on the Financial Times website about the Great Pyramid of Giza: "Life and death were addressed explicitly in the art of the pharaohs. The granite slab was the final resting place...