Egypt
The boat beneath the pyramid
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown)
Vincent has done a great feature today on Khufu's boat at Giza. He has displayed some excellent photographs and provided links to PDFs and photographs which describe the boat and its discovery, excavation and reconstruction.
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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...
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Ancient Egyptian Book Of The Dead
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Vincent has a short feature today about the Book of the Dead which includes two videos from the Royal Ontario Museum, and lots of useful online resources. Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
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Pyramid Updates
Egyptian Pyramids Two great pieces of news: there is a new blog by Vincent Brown which is dedicated to Egyptian Pyramid news (see the blog at the above address), and Vincent has just received information today that the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre are...
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Pipe Bursts At Boat Museum
On the Giza plateau sits next to the great pyramid a museum with one main object the gigantic solar boat found in a pit next to the pyramid of King Khufu. The 4600 year old boat was found in its pit taken apart in 1223 pieces that took...
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The Boat Beneath The Pyramid
Nancy Jenkins Holt, Rinehart and Winston New York 1980 ISBN 0-03-057061-1 This attractive book is filled with many images about pyramids of the Old Kingdom and the boat pits that accompany them including the subject of the book the boat found and restored...
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