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first the red pyramid in the dashur necropolis
and then the great pyramid of khufu,
and now may i present to you,
the pyramid in the middle of the street...
In 1843 gold was discovered near Pyramid Lake and in the Santa Feliciana Canyon which is south of what is now Pyramid Dam. Pyramid Lake and Dam was completed in 1973. Pyramid Lake is the deepest lake in the California Water Project system and is a part of the California Aqueduct system. The lake got its name from a Pyramid shaped rock that was cut out by engineers constructing the old Ridge Route road (US Highway 99). The rock still stands adjacent to the dam.
View of Khufu's Great pyramid from near the foot of the Great Sphinx. The Queens' pyramids can be seen on the right side of the pyramid while the Solar Bark museum can be seen to the left of the leftmost group of trees.
Pyramid - photo taken by mrtraveller in Dahshur, Egypt.
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"The exhibition Banana Mummy presents artist and architect Valentina Karga’s long term artistic research on the circulation of energy and matter amid escalated ecological urgencies. It narrates a certain Western pathology and dream of immortality—striving to differentiate from earthly cycles of matter and energy by escaping the limits of existence. As a starting point for this exhibition, Valentina Karga has chosen a banana, a presumably stock item of organic matter, and the myth that pyramidical form can preserve any living thing and thereby stop the process of decay.
The pyramid was believed to act as a carrier for supernatural powers, the energy of which could be harnessed into preserving materials. Through mummification, ephemera placed within this force field is removed from natural sequences of transformation where its living form would decay, its particles disassemble, and a return to molecular cycles would ensue. The result, should the suggested method work, would however not be the conservation of life and banana, but merely the pickling of form."
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1956; Tillie [Summer on the Water] by David Westheimer. Cover art by Julian Paul. Explosive Passions in the Deep South!
Une caravane (de touristes) arrive sur les pyramides. A caravan (of tourists) arriving to the pyramids
1957; Teen-Age Vice by Courtney Ryley Cooper. Original Title: Designs in Scarlet. Inspered by J. Edgar Hoover. Cover art by Samson Pollen
Pyramid Books / Taschenbuch-Reihe
The Unexpected / ANTHOLOGY
Edited by Leo Margulies
Eleven strange stories by
> Theodore Sturgeon / The Professor's Teddy-Bear
> Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl / Legal Rites
> Robert Bloch / The Strange Island of Dr. Nork
> Margaret St. Clair / Mrs. Hawk
> Ray Bradbury / The Handler
> Fritz Leiber / The Automatic Pistol
> Mary Elizabeth Counselman / The Unwanted
> Manly Wade Wellman / The Valley Was Still
> Anthony Boucher / The Scrawny One
> Fredric Brown / Come and Go Mad
> Eric Frank Russell / The Big Shot
cover: John Schoenherr
Pyramid Books
(N.Y. / USA; 1961)
ex libris MTP
What better place to spend our final few hours in Egypt than the Giza plateau, this time exploring the site by foot and visiting mastaba tombs (there are many here but only a couple can be visited) and Menkaure's pyramid, the only one of the three large pyramids we'd not entered before (the two largest we'd been inside on our first visit in 1995, this time queues for the Great Pyramid of Khufu were discouraging, and Khafre's was closed).
The Giza Pyramids need no introduction, the largest and most famous monuments of antiquity and the sole surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World.
Situated on a desert plateau to the south west of Cairo (and indeed on the very edge of the city's modern urban sprawl) the pyramids of Giza form the heart of an extensive ancient necropolis with the monumental tombs of three of Egypt's earliest Old Kingdom pharaohs marked by the vast structures. Each of the pyramids is a colossal mass of near solid masonry, without adornment and with only a few passages within each leading to burial chambers long since emptied and robbed in antiquity.
The earliest is the Great Pyramid of Khufu (sometimes referred to by the Greek title 'Cheops', or by his full pharaonic name 'Khnum-Khufu'). It is also the largest; the structure is simply enormous and remained the World's tallest building until well into the Middle Ages.
The following pyramid was built by Khafre (also called 'Khephren') and is similarly vast (often appearing in photos of the whole group as larger due to its more central position) but is significantly smaller than Khufu's monument. The smallest of the three (at around less than half the size) was built by his successor Menkaure. Both his and Khufu's monuments have much smaller satellite pyramids at their base (some in more ruinous condition) to house the tombs of their queens.
Originally all the pyramids had a smooth outer covering of white stone but this was quarried away by later generations (much of which was used for some of Cairo's greatest Islamic monuments) leaving the rough inner blocks exposed. A small section remains at the apex of Khafre's pyramid (suggestive of a snow-capped mountain) to give a sense of the original finish and overall mass.
Today the site remains the most popular in Egypt and an astonishing testament to the skill and determination of its earliest builders.
An attractive looking orchid with dense spikes of pink or pale purple flowers, each with a long spur. The plant gets its name from the conical, or pyramid-shaped arrangement of these flowers. The flowers have no scent.
Orchids, like most things in nature, can be very unpredictable. One year you might see a whole carpet of flowers, while the following year there may be just a few blooms.
The reason is that the seed of the orchid does not contain enough nourishment to produce leaves and flowers. To make up for this the seed relies on fungus in the soil to provide the nourishment.
This underground fungus-root relationship can take several years to fully develop before the roots are ready to send up leaves and flowers.
Conn Maguire - The Reefs of Eden
Pyramid Books N-2062, 1969
Cover photo by Morgan Kane
"Seven beautiful (and naked) females, six weird (and naked) scientists, two bold (and naked) sailors trapped on an island paradise."
Scott Laurence - Georgia Hotel
Pyramid Books 272, 1957
Cover Artist: Lou Marchetti
"From woman to woman..."
Clifton Cuthbert - The Shame of Mary Quinn
(Original Title: Thunder Without Rain)
Pyramid Books 28, 1952
Cover Artist: Hunter Barker
"The subject of this book is incest and perversion, but the theme rises above its source and becomes dire human tragedy."
Suite a des décénies de recherches, nous avons apris que: Elle n'étaient pas construitent par des esclaves, que les hyèroglyphes n'étaient pas que des idéogrammes, mais une langue parlée.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Rosette
Maintenant nous savons qu'une grande majoritées des blocs qui forme sa structure sont en béton.
www.geopolymer.org/fr/archeologie/pyramides/les-pyramides...
Ou voir Science & vie No 1011 déc 2001 ou No 1771déc2006
archinow.blogspot.com/2006/11/pyramides-en-bton.html
image réalisée avec Bryce 3D,Gimp et quelques plugin's Photoshop.
Luc Jardon
Hiéroglyphe+
Prestigieuse civilisation du Nubie, héritière culturelle des fameux pharaons noirs de la XXVème dynastie d'Égypte, Méroé prospéra du IIIéme siècle avant J.C.au IVème siècle de notre ère.
The gable of the west wall of the antechamber.
"Unas appears as Nefertum, the lotus at the nose of Re, as he comes out of the Horizon every day, and at the sight of which the gods purify themselves." - Utterance 249.
Photograph kindly provided by Jon Bodsworth.
More texts can be found at www.pyramidtextsonline.com