Egypt
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/personal-histories/
- Emails Re How The Pyramids Were Built
Someone sent me an email recently with their personal theory about how the Giza pyramids were built. In general I should probably explain that I receive a two or three "how they built the pyramids" emails a month. They are usually well thought out and...
- Archaeology Magazine's Top 10 Discoveries Of 2007
Archaeology Magazine Oh alright, this really doesn't have a lot to do with Egyptology, but it is a bit of fun. Archeaology Magazine have listed their top 10 of the year's most important discoveries: Hardly week goes by without a major archaeological...
- More Re Great Pyramid Construction Theory
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-05-16-pyramid-theory_N.htmSome excellent computer models accompany this article which again reviews the theory proposed by French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, which suggests that the pyramid of Khufu was built...
- French Pyramid Theory Rejected
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ "Egyptian, German and US archaeological experts have rejected the theory of the French archaeologist Jean-Pierre Houdin about how the Giza Pyramids were built, Zahi Hawass, the Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme...
- Bob Brier On Pyramid Construction
http://www.archaeology.org/0705/etc/pyramid.htmlThis is the best summary so far of old and new theories of pyramid construction possibilities, by Egyptologists Bob Brier, on the Archaeology magazine website. It includes helpful diagrams to accompany detailed...
Egypt
Videos: Archaeological theory
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/personal-histories/
Videos are available to accompany the earlier seminar on archaeological method and theory held at Cambridge earlier this year, entitled Personal Histories in Archaeological Theory and Method: Processualism and the New Archaeology in the 1960s.
Panellists were: Colin Renfrew, Mike Schiffer, Ezra Zubrow, Graeme Barker (chair), and Discussants were: Robin Dennell, Rob Foley, Paul Mellars and Marek Zvelebil.
Panellists were: Colin Renfrew, Mike Schiffer, Ezra Zubrow, Graeme Barker (chair), and Discussants were: Robin Dennell, Rob Foley, Paul Mellars and Marek Zvelebil.
- Emails Re How The Pyramids Were Built
Someone sent me an email recently with their personal theory about how the Giza pyramids were built. In general I should probably explain that I receive a two or three "how they built the pyramids" emails a month. They are usually well thought out and...
- Archaeology Magazine's Top 10 Discoveries Of 2007
Archaeology Magazine Oh alright, this really doesn't have a lot to do with Egyptology, but it is a bit of fun. Archeaology Magazine have listed their top 10 of the year's most important discoveries: Hardly week goes by without a major archaeological...
- More Re Great Pyramid Construction Theory
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-05-16-pyramid-theory_N.htmSome excellent computer models accompany this article which again reviews the theory proposed by French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, which suggests that the pyramid of Khufu was built...
- French Pyramid Theory Rejected
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ "Egyptian, German and US archaeological experts have rejected the theory of the French archaeologist Jean-Pierre Houdin about how the Giza Pyramids were built, Zahi Hawass, the Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme...
- Bob Brier On Pyramid Construction
http://www.archaeology.org/0705/etc/pyramid.htmlThis is the best summary so far of old and new theories of pyramid construction possibilities, by Egyptologists Bob Brier, on the Archaeology magazine website. It includes helpful diagrams to accompany detailed...