Egypt
- 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....
- Foreign Teams On Missions In Egypt
Egyptian Gazette As ever with the Egyptian Gazette this story will only be available for a few days. More than one hundred foreign archaeological teams are currently working in Egypt and all are hoping to discover new monuments and artefacts that might...
- Travel: A Visit To Cairo
http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/travel/egypts-alluring-siren-song-/282284 "A set of three pyramids with the tallest being built by King Cheops and known as the Great Pyramid. When you finally see the Great Pyramid, one is left speechless because...
- Online Facsimile Of Belzon's "operations"
http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?Destination=Gallica&O=NUMM-105346 http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-105346&M=pagination&Y=Image Thanks very much to Chuck Jones for pointing out that there is a complete facsimile of Belzoni's...
- Zahi Hawass, Dig Days Column
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/766/he2.htmIn Hawass's regular Dig Days piece, this week entitled Adventures in the Step Pyramid, Hawass describes entering one of the Queens' pyramids located south of the Menkaure Pyramid at Giza, and the Step...
Egypt
Belzoni on the second pyramid (1820)
http://tinyurl.com/9msk4 (Travellers in Egypt)
A fabulous and lengthy extract from Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia by Giovanni Battista Belzoni, 1820, describing his work on the "second" Giza pyramid: "The Arabs had great confidence in the hopes I had excited among them, that if any entrance into the pyramid were found, I would give great bakshis, in addition to the advantage they would derive from other strangers. But after many vain expectations, and much hard labour in removing huge masses of stone, and cutting the mortar, which was so hard that their hatchets were nearly all broken, they began to flag in their prospect of finding any thing, and I was about to become an object of ridicule for making the attempt to penetrate a place, which appeared to them, as well as to more civilized people, a mass of solid stone. However, as long as I paid them they continued their work, though with much less zeal. My hopes did not forsake me, in spite of all the difficulties I saw, and the little appearance of making the discovery of an entrance into the pyramid."
See the full extract on the Travellers in Egypt website, above. This is part 1 - I will post when part 2 has been added to the site.
- 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....
- Foreign Teams On Missions In Egypt
Egyptian Gazette As ever with the Egyptian Gazette this story will only be available for a few days. More than one hundred foreign archaeological teams are currently working in Egypt and all are hoping to discover new monuments and artefacts that might...
- Travel: A Visit To Cairo
http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/travel/egypts-alluring-siren-song-/282284 "A set of three pyramids with the tallest being built by King Cheops and known as the Great Pyramid. When you finally see the Great Pyramid, one is left speechless because...
- Online Facsimile Of Belzon's "operations"
http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?Destination=Gallica&O=NUMM-105346 http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-105346&M=pagination&Y=Image Thanks very much to Chuck Jones for pointing out that there is a complete facsimile of Belzoni's...
- Zahi Hawass, Dig Days Column
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/766/he2.htmIn Hawass's regular Dig Days piece, this week entitled Adventures in the Step Pyramid, Hawass describes entering one of the Queens' pyramids located south of the Menkaure Pyramid at Giza, and the Step...