They say the pyramids coordinates are the same numbers as the speed of light. The pyramids were built long before humans created coordinates for mapping so unless the ancients could time travel then the coordinate thing has no significance at all correct?

I’m a training Egyptologist (currently doing my MRes), and in June I’ll be working on my first dig in Egypt.

I’ve been on a few digs before, specifically around Malta and the Mediterranean, but Egypt is quite obviously a completely different kettle of fish. The climate will be much hotter, the type of work and environment will be totally different, obviously the animals will be different (snakes and scorpions aren’t very common dig companions in Malta!) and the culture will be totally different too.

For reference, I’m a white woman in her early twenties.

I was hoping some other women could share some clothing recommendations or outfit ideas that are appropriate to wear when working - perhaps even the name or link of clothing items. In the Mediterranean my outfits were far more lax and casual, including parachute pants, shorts, and sleeveless tops and while it worked perfectly well for me then, I know that’s not going to work in Egypt.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you 😊

(If i even need to know any of that to understand the text).

Hi everyone!

I’ve been on a wild journey into the world of ancient geometry, and I thought this might be the perfect place to share my discoveries. Over the past several months, I’ve been researching the royal cubit—yes, that ancient unit of measurement you’ve probably heard about in the context of the Egyptian pyramids. But there’s so much more to it than meets the eye.

Did you know there’s an alternative value for the royal cubit, 0.4761904 meters, that might reveal surprising geometric insights into how the Great Pyramid was designed? My work explores how this value could have been used in ancient calculations involving π, fractions, and even connections to the Earth’s dimensions.

Why am I posting here?

Because I know you’re the kind of people who get as excited as I do about the intersection of math, history, and curiosity. My research has led me to fascinating ideas about how ancient builders might have thought about geometry—not just as a tool for construction, but as a way of understanding the world and the cosmos.

Some of the questions I’ve been wrestling with:

• How could the geometry of the pyramids be so precise without the modern tools we rely on today?
• Could ancient measurement systems like the royal cubit have links to the metric system we use now?
• What does it mean, philosophically, to think of math as both practical and poetic?

Where you can find more details

I’ve been writing about my journey on Substack, where I dig deeper into the math, the history, and the “what ifs.” It’s been a labor of love, and I’d really love to share it with people who might enjoy it as much as I’ve enjoyed putting it together.

Here’s the link if you’d like to check it out: https://eimablank.substack.com/

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Hi, a couple of years ago I came across a video on YouTube about someone (I think he was a French researcher) looking into the pyramids and he had a theory about the pyramids been built in a spiral motion and the main gallery been used to host a counterweight and there was a researcher who had radiology evidence from 1991 that backed up this other researchers claims, the video had some good photo evidence that showed some wear at the top of the main gallery before it was repaired and it went into some voids possibly used as lifts anyone have any more info on this or can point me in the right direction Cheers.

When Ramesses II's mummy was examined initially, a scientist discovered salt in his body, which led to the conclusion he died in a body of saltwater. How/why did this happen? Do we know of this in any way besides that 3000 year postmortem autopsy? One of the most interesting things I've read in history was how we confirmed the documents discussing Ramesses III's assassination by finding defensive wounds on his mummy, it's like the ultimate galactic vindication that what we do as historians is legitimate and genuine, that we are actually finding deeply buried truths and not just misunderstanding the rambling thoughts and theories of random people from millenia ago (although even having access to them is interesting enough for me), so I'd love if there was any ancient reference to this. Or do we just know of it due to what was found in Ramesses II's mummy?

I mean not only in hieroglyphics but also in history written by Greeks, Romans, Assyrians etc

Aviametrix announces two new additions to its iOS software products supporting Egyptology.

1. Egyptian Transliterator is a convenient utility to interconvert between three styles of transliteration:  Gardiner Codes, Manuel de Codage, and the Edel (1955) form of phonetic transliteration. In addition, the App can display any of these transliterations in hieroglyphs. Many conversions lead to multiple possible results and for these, all the possibilities are provided in brackets. The database contains nearly 700 transliteration possibilities from Gardiner Code, and is derived primarily from Hannig’s Grosses Handworterbuch Agyptisch-Deutsch (Marburger Ed.), with updates from the Thotsignlist.org edited by Université de Liège and Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.   The app supports English, Arabic, French and German.  A more complete description is available at:  http://transliterator.aviametrix.com  
2. Pharaoh Finder is a unique App which makes it very easy to identify a cartouche or serekh. While common names are well known, this app contains all attested variants of all five pharaonic names/titles for all attested kings from Narmer to the Roman Decius. Over 2,200 variants.  The app is used by dragging and dropping, in no particular order, a few of the glyphs seen in the inscription. The more glyphs dragged, the more specific the match to a king.  A chronological list of Pharaohs is also provided for reference.  The data for this App is derived primarily from the work of Beckerath, and supplemented from the web site https://pharaoh.se   A more complete description, with a short video demonstration can be found at:   https://pharaohfinder.aviametrix.com/PharaohFinder.html 
3. Aviametrix also announces a major update to Universal Hieroglyph Translator App.  This app is a dictionary which translates Egyptian into any of 59 modern languages, on the fly, and without any internet connection.  The update increases the dictionary from 54,000 to over 101,000 entries.  Its web page is at:  https://arch.aviametrix.com/portfolio/universal-hieroglyph-translator/ 

I was hoping someone could provide me the ptolemaic hieroglyphs of this Book of the Dead spell

"I am that Osiris, the Lord of Amenta, and Osiris knoweth his day, and that it is in his lot that he should end his being, and be no more."

Can anyone tell me if the meteoric iron dagger found in Tutankhamun's grave goods is displayed in the Egyptian Museum

Hi all,

I’m looking for a replacement of a hieroglyphs poster I used to have in my classroom but it went missing.

It had French, German, and English writing on it, and was using Ramesses II’s cartouche to translate the glyphs.

I can’t seem to find it anywhere, so I thought I’d ask here. If anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be awesome

Hello everyone! I am a student of Egyptology and I need your help. Maybe some of you have this book in electronic format?

Brose, Marc: Die Sprache der königlichen Stelen der 18. Dynastie bis einschließlich Amenophis III.

I'm reading up on the ancient Egyptian concept of the soul and I'm confused on what exactly the difference between the Ba and Sah is. I might just be missing some key context but if I'm getting this right that the Sah is a spiritual body that can move about in the afterlife and haunt people in life while the Ba is the personality of a person and can also move through the afterlife and physical world alike? These seem redundant but I must be missing some context surely?