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Author : Peter Tompkins
Release : 1973-01-01
Genre : Archaeology
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Book Rating : 953/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Secrets of the Great Pyramid by : Peter Tompkins
Download or read book Secrets of the Great Pyramid written by Peter Tompkins. This book was released on 1973-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Brier
Release : 2008-10-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 788/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Secret of the Great Pyramid by : Bob Brier
Download or read book The Secret of the Great Pyramid written by Bob Brier. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade ago, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin became obsessed by the centuriesold question: How was the Great Pyramid built? How, in a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age, could such a massive, complex, and enduring structure have been envisioned and constructed? Laboring at his computer ten hours a day for five years—creating exquisitely detailed 3-D models of the Pyramid's interior—Houdin finally had his answer. It was a startling revelation that cast a fresh light on the minds that conceived one of the wonders of the ancient world. Written by world-renowned Egyptologist Bob Brier in collaboration with Houdin, The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves deftly between the ancient and the modern, chronicling two equally fascinating interrelated histories. It is a remarkable account of the step-by-step planning and assembling of the magnificent edifice—the brainchild of an innovative genius, the Egyptian architect Hemienu, who imagined, organized, and oversaw a monumental construction project that took more than two decades to complete and that employed the services of hundreds of architects, mathematicians, boatbuilders, stonemasons, and metallurgists. Here also is the riveting story of Jean-Pierre Houdin's single-minded search for solutions to the mysteries that have bedeviled Egyptologists for centuries, such as the purpose of the enigmatic Grand Gallery and the Pyramid's crack.
Author : Robert M. Schoch
Release : 2005-06-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 665/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pyramid Quest by : Robert M. Schoch
Download or read book Pyramid Quest written by Robert M. Schoch. This book was released on 2005-06-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Egyptologist acclaimed for re-dating the Great Sphinx at Giza sets his sights on one of the true mysteries of antiquity: the Great Pyramid of Giza. What is the Great Pyramid of Giza? Ask that basic question of a traditional Egyptologist, and you get the basic, traditional answer: a fancy tombstone for a self-important pharaoh of the Old Kingdom. This, Egyptologists argue, is the sole finding based on the data, and the only deduction supported by science. By implication, anyone who dissents from this point of view is unscientific and woolly-minded-a believer in magic and ghosts. Indeed, some of the unconventional ideas about the Great Pyramid do have a spectacularly fabulous ring to them. Yet from beneath the obvious terms of this controversy, a deeper, more significant question arises: how is it that the Great Pyramid exercises such a gripping hold on the human psyche- adding cryptic grace to the back of the one-dollar bill and framing myriad claims of New Age "pyramid power"? In Pyramid Quest, Robert M. Schoch and Robert Aquinas McNally use the rigorous intellectual analysis of scientific inquiry to investigate what we know about the Great Pyramid, and develop a stunning hypothesis: This ancient monument is the strongest proof yet that civilization began thousands of years earlier than is generally thought, extending far back into a little-known time. In tracing that story, we come to understand not only the Great Pyramid but also our own origins as civilized beings.
Author : Ridgely Abdul Mu'min
Release : 1988
Genre : Great Pyramid (Egypt)
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Book Rating : 905/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Amen by : Ridgely Abdul Mu'min
Download or read book Amen written by Ridgely Abdul Mu'min. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig B. Smith
Release : 2018-02-20
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 269/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How the Great Pyramid Was Built by : Craig B. Smith
Download or read book How the Great Pyramid Was Built written by Craig B. Smith. This book was released on 2018-02-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond even the expertise of archaeologists and historians, world-class engineer Craig B. Smith explores the planning and engineering behind the incredible Great Pyramid of Giza. How would the ancient Egyptians have developed their building plans, devised work schedules, managed laborers, solved specific design and engineering problems, or even improvised on the job? The answers are here, along with dazzling, one-of-a-kind color photographs and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations of tools, materials, and building techniques the ancient masters used. In his foreword to the book, Egypt's Undersecretary of State for the Giza Monuments Zahi Hawass explains the importance of understanding the Great Pyramid as a straightforward construction project.
