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Hi all,
Have just posted up another article, not a guide this time, more a crazy idea on part of the Bent pyramid, that some might be interested in.
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Hi all,
Have just posted up my guide on the Lahun pyramid,
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Dr Dave Lightbody Wrote:
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> Could this be the most concise, accurate, and
> up-to-date book about the Great Pyramid of Giza
> ever written? Judge for yourself. Now available
> for sale across the globe:
>
Only until l bring out my laymans guide :-) Congrats
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waggy
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In connection with Reisner's arcticle above, Peter Manuelian has done an interesting article on the Wadi cemetary.
Sadly its a case of more questions than answers. Hopefully, some time in the future the area will receive modern excavation.
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Good question and hard to say. As Martin notes in his article; "One wonders how many funerary monuments of the early periods were demolished by the architects and masons of Khufu and his successors, further north in the necropolis." It might be possible that this line of earlier tombs carried on across the wadi; as l mentioned in my Khentkawes guide maybe the palace facade visible on kh
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Hi Hans,
There are several images of the top on the internet, such as,
There is also some drone footage out there, but nothing as detailed as l would like.
It would be great to see a closeup drone footage around the summit, though l believe drones are supposed to be illegal around giza.
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Hi Charly,
Many thanks for that, l really appreciate it. I see the item is still available for sale on their website, so have contacted them, and hopefully l can peruse the article soon.
Cheers
Waggy
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Hi all,
I am looking at creating a guide for the Lahun pyramid; however, it appears that the primary sources of information are from Petrie's era. I have not come across any reports of ground water intrusion like we see at Hawara, so it would appear that the pyramid should be accessible; yet l have been unable to find any more modern reports.
Does anyone know if any more modern work h
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I will certainly put Tanis on my to do list, cant promise anything though; l often come across interesting tombs etc that l would love to do, but have to put on hold due to insufficient source material to make a 3d model. Time for another mince pie and hope Santa gets me the books l asked for
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> Excellent! I can just imagine what Petrie felt,
> trapped in the theives' holes. Are the pieces he
> found in Cairo?
Not sure what happen to the pieces Petrie found, maybe the pieces he buried still lie there.
The Alabaster offering table found in the well chamber is on display as is the fine gran
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Hi all,
Last guide for the year, for anyone interested in the Hawara Pyramid.
If not registered with academia.edu, it can be freely download here,
Happy hols and new year.
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waggy
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Hi Charly,
The main problem l have with the liminescence dating, is the small sampling done in the Osireion. Only two samples were taken of the Osireion RHO-1389 (sandstone) and RHO 139 (granite), The sandstone was given a wide range of 1300 +-570 BC, the granite 1980 +-110 BC, and even doses had to be subtracted from these samples to allow for burial in sand. The granite sample from the imag
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Hi all,
I have just posted up my latest guide on the Osireion.
For those not registered with academia.edu, it can be downloaded here,
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I think it might be the Petrie granite stone, that prevented Prof Smyth from clearing the descending passage. Petries description of it is on page 28 of Pyramids and temples of Giza, The measurements of this block agree with the one outside by the entrance, Jon Bodsworth many years ago kindly sent me an image of this block, with measurements placed on it, that agree with Petrie's description
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Hi Robin,
I have not been able to find coordinates, the Giza Plateau Mapping Project states, "The underlying data for the Giza Plateau model are not available to the public at this time. When the basic model is finished we will determine how and to whom the model will be made available."
As to its positioning to the NW, likewise l have no data of azimuths and levels, that Petrie w
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I have updated the guide to include new images kindly provided by a reader, they can be found at the end of the guide.
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Hi all,
I have just posted up a guide on Khentkawes tomb,
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Thanks Hans, never noticed the date on the post, am due an eye test soon
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Hi Jon,
Silly question, but how does one see these images? They dont show on my computer for some reason. If l right click on one of the icons, a link comes up, but that only takes me to egyptarchive homepage and l cant find anything from there. I'm baffled, any help appreciated.
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Seems to be a popular name, as we may have a third.
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Hi Hans,
Many thanks for the link, very useful; but the Khentkawes tomb l am interested in, is the one at Giza not Abusir. I have several contacts of different nationalities doing searches for me, in the hope that some images exist in some publication, but so far no luck.
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Hi all,
For my next guide l am working on Queen Khentkawes tomb; however, there appears to be no photographic record of the internal chambers which seems unbelievable. Does anyone know if any internal images of this tomb have ever been published? M&R's drawings will help me create CGI's of the chambers, but photo's would be a great help.
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Hi all,
Have just posted up a guide on Abu Rawash, that some might find interesting.
Can't answer any questions as will be on hols and disconnected from WWW.
If not registered with academia, it can be downloaded here,
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Spiros Wrote:
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> Thanks for posting this. I have just skimmed
> through it looking at the dimensions. I think you
> are mistaken in the width of the mastaba base.
> Lehner has the base at 74.4 meters, not 77.4
> meter. You can find this value also in Verner's
> book and all over the internet(Wikipedia etc).
>
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> Myopic. Nice. and you say I took your comments
> out of context.
Myopic is a fair characterization of Egyptology's exploration of these structures, there is no excuse for missing what Dormion found. Egyptology is a broad discipline, many do not study the pyramids, but specialize in specific areas, and different dynastic timelines, l am not labelling all Egyptology
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Yikes, l wake up this morning and find a war on the forum.
Warick you have taken my coffee table book analogy out of context, Ricke can see exactly what l meant and makes quite a humourous response (by the way, thinks for donating them to the charity shop, thats were l normally get them through:-)
Clearly excavation reports, Dieter Arnold, Petrie etc, are not coffee table books and l quote
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Hi all,
I doubt there is a market for detailed layman guides, people are more interested in bite sized summaries found in the numerous coffee table books provided by Egyptology.
I would rather focus on the detailed study of Egyptian architecture, which Egyptology tends to avoid; where are the comparable guides or papers by Egyptologists? My guides are more for other disciplines, to help pro
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'But I do think our amateur efforts can make a useful contribution.'
Yes a useful contribution, but do not expect Egyptology to take any notice. My experience of Egyptology is one or a very unhelpful discipline. I cannot get a single Egyptologist to respond to the issues i have raised on the Bent, just a wall of silence. I have offered a solution to the Bent that shows more respect t
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It
> is the duty of Egyptology to thoroughly explore
> structures under its control;
No its the duty of those who are interested in a particular point of interest - measurements in this case - to gather money and obtain permission to do it. You'll note a lack of interest in Egyptology to do so?
Hi Hans,
My reply in the thread was not specific to just measurements, there i
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'Was the Bent form intentional or was it a fudge job as Monnier proposes? And perhaps most interesting, what is the theoretical slope of the Red?'
Hi Robin
You will probably gather from my work, that l see the structure as intentional rather than a series of failures. In my 'curious case of the 60 degree pyramid paper' l suggest the illusory truth effect as the best expl
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