Author : Derek Hitchins
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 144574824X
Diaries of Hemiunu, Architect of the Great Pyramid, reveal his privileged, yet dangerous, life as royal architect to Khufu. Diaries answer age-old questions about the design and building of the pyramids, but also about royal-family 'goings-on,' succession rivalries and murder in the harem...
Author : John Baines
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2007-05-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198152507
A generously illustrated collection of John Baines's influential writings on the role of writing and the importance of visual culture in ancient Egypt. Investigation of these key topics in a comparative study of early civilizations is pursued through a number of case studies, and characterized by a radically interdisciplinary approach.
Author : Marian Redmond
Publisher : R.I.C. Publications
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Celts
ISBN : 1741265053
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Robert Bauval
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2001-05-04
Category :
ISBN : 0099429276
Unlocking the secrets of the pyramids.For thousands of years the pyramids have stood, imposing and enigmatic, refusing to give up their secrets.Why did the Egyptians really build pyramids?What lies inside the Great Pyramid's hidden chamber and what a
Author : Erik Hornung
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2006-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9047404009
This volume deals with the chronology of Ancient Egypt from the fourth millennium until the Hellenistic Period. An initial section reviews the foundations of Egyptian chronology, both ancient and modern, from annals and kinglists to C14 analyses of archaeological data. Specialists discuss sources, compile lists of known dates, and analyze biographical information in the section devoted to relative chronology. The editors are responsible for the final section which attempts a synthesis of the entire range of available data to arrive at alternative absolute chronologies. The prospective readership includes specialists in Near Eastern and Aegean studies as well as Egyptologists.
Author : Dr A Rosalie David
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113474322X
In Rosalie David's hands, the Egyptian builders of the pyramids are revealed as simple people, leading ordinary lives while they are engaged on building the great tomb for a Pharoah. This is an engrossing detective story, bringing to the general reader a fascinating picture of a special community that lived in Egypt and built one of the pyramids, some four thousand years ago.
Author : Laurence Gardner
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2007-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781578634040
What ancient mystery lies behind the creation of Freemasonry- a lost secret so powerful that the Brotherhood itself has been on a quest to find it for three hundred years? For those of us lacking the resources to excavate occult secrets hidden beneath the Louvre or the Rosslyn Chapel, or within CIA Headquarters, The Shadow of Solomon is the next best thing. These pages reveal the true secrets of Solomon, from masonry to magic. Laurence Gardner's personal experience as both a Templar and a mason makes this fascinating journey through the history of the Bible, Knights Templar, Freemasons, and everything that followed all the more striking and immediate. Is it an accident that the world's attention should be turned to these men and their strange lexicon of symbols and secrets RIGHT NOW? What will happen when we understand that there is something we all have in common that is greater than nation or religion? Freemasons are often said to be the world's most influential secret society, yet the story of this enigmatic fraternity is wrapped in mystery and intrigue. Their involvement in shaping political world events has stretched over centuries, even to the extent that masonic principles lie beneath the establishment of the United States and its Constitution. The Shadow of Solomon is the definitive insider's account of the startling truth behind masonic history and the centuries-long search that the fraternity has undertaken to find its own lost secrets.
Author : M. L. Bierbrier
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9789774242106
This fascinating study brings to life the people who lived and died at Deir el-Medina over three thousand years ago--the workers who built the tombs of the pharaohs in the nearby Valley of the Kings. Dr. Bierbrier draws on the thousands of documents, letters, literary texts, and drawings found at the site to give an intimate glimpse of life in the village.
Author : Peter France
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
From 1798, when Napoleon's invading army rediscovered the ancient civilization of Egypt, until 1922, when the contents of Tutankhamun's tomb were handed over to the Cairo Museum, the European powers fell over themselves to plunder the archaeological treasures of the Nile valley. So-called archaeologists behaved like tomb robbers, government officials engaged in illegal conspiracies, and crates of priceless and often unrecorded treasures were shipped away all over the world. But at the same time the science of Egyptology was born. The story is peopled with flamboyant antiquarians, corrupt officials and eccentric geniuses - men like Champollion, who could speak seven oriental languages by the age of 18, and who deciphered the Rosetta Stone, key to Egypt's mysteries.
