Daily Archives: May 21, 2010

One of the great treasures in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum is the funerary furniture and jewelry of Queen Hetepheres. Elegant furniture with beautiful gold bands of hieroglyphs are the main attraction, but there are also spectacular silver bracelets inlaid with turquoise butterf lies, whose discovery came about under unique circumstances. Found in 1925, when Tutankhamen’s tomb … Continue reading »

The last major engineering task was the positioning of the capstone, basically a small pyramid, on the very top of the Pyramid. The pyramidion, as it is called, was made of fine limestone and probably covered with electrum, an alloy of gold and silver, and might have weighed as much as fifteen tons.48 We don’t … Continue reading »