Author : Meredith Hooper
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Pyramids
ISBN : 9780763673802
Describes the roles of everyone involved in building Senwosret's pyramid, from the king himself to a lowly water carrier.
Author : Craig B. Smith
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1588346269
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.
Author : Joseph Davidovits
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Egyptology
ISBN : 9782951482043
In this book, Professor Joseph Davidovits explains the intriguing theory that made him famous. He shows how the Pyramids were built by using re-agglomerated stone (a natural limestone treated like a concrete), and not with huge carved blocks, hauled on fragile ramps. Archaeology bears him out, as well as hieroglyphic texts, scientific analysis, religious and historical facts. Several independant scientific studies reveal the ultimate proofs that the pyramids blocks are not natural. You may find various papers or opinions challenging the theory, but all prefer ignoring these analysis. Believing or not in the artificial stone theory is now simply irrelevant. It is a fact, a truth that is still fought by some people for irrational purposes. Here we finally have the first complete presentation on how and why the Egyptian pyramids were built. We discover its brilliant creator, the great scribe and architect, Imhotep. Joseph Davidovits sweeps aside the conventional image which cripples Egyptology and delivers a captivating and surprising view of Egyptian civilisation. He charts the rise of this technology, its apogee with the Pyramids at Giza, and the decline. Everything is logical and brilliant, everything fits into place. Chapter by chapter, the revelations are sensational, especially when Joseph Davidovits explains why the pharaohs stopped building great pyramids because of an over-exploitation of raw materials and a likely environmental disaster. We understand why Cheops and Ramses II represent two Egyptian civilisations completely different in their beliefs. On the one hand, the God Khnum mandates Cheops to build his pyramid in agglomerated stone, while on the other hand, the God Amun orders Ramses to carve stone for the temples of Luxor and Karnak. 30 years after the best seller book: The Pyramids: an enigma solved, after 30 years of new research, and new discoveries, you will understand why the theory is more alive than ever, why more and more scientists and archaeologists agree, simply because it is the truth.
Author : John Taylor (Publisher.)
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 1859
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Dr A Rosalie David
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 26,56 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 : Elizabeth Mann
Publisher : Mikaya Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 0965049310
A history of the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza and the civilization that produced it.
Author : Chris Massey
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9781846247347
This engaging account is the result of Massey's pool-side ponderings, in which he gives a detailed alternative theory of how the ancient Egyptians could have used water to their advantage to make pyramid building much easier.
Author : Joseph Davidovits
Publisher : Geopolymer Institute
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2008-05-20
Category :
ISBN : 2951482027
Joseph Davidovits explains the intriguing theory that made him famous. He shows how the Pyramids were built by using re-agglomerated stone (a natural limestone treated like a concrete), and not with huge carved blocks, hauled on fragile ramps. Archaeology bears him out, as well as hieroglyphic texts, scientific analysis, religious and historical facts. The author sweeps aside the conventional image which cripples Egyptology and delivers a captivating and surprising view of this civilisation; the first complete presentation on how the pyramids were built. The revelations are sensational, especially when he explains why the pharaohs stopped building great pyramids because of an over-exploitation of raw materials and a likely environmental disaster. He charts the rise of this technology, its apogee at Giza, and the decline. Everything is logical, everything fits into place.
Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781559703147
In ancient Egypt, a pharaoh wants to dispense with a pyramid as his grave, but the priests convince him that building one is necessary to keep the populace busy and controlled. A political allegory by an Albanian writer, author of The Concert.
Author : Christine El Mahdy
Publisher :
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Great Pyramid (Egypt)
ISBN : 9780755310098
Four and a half thousand years ago, the largest of the wonders of the ancient world was built. The Great Pyramid at Giza has fascinated and intrigued scholars ever since and it the only one of the wonders listed by the Greeks to have survived intact to this day. By the time Tutenkhamen ruled Egypt it was already 1500 years old; to Cleopatra it was an antiquity. But how was it built? Why and by whom? despotic scale, has fascinated travellers and archaeologists since the 19th-century revival of interest in antiquities. And with it a fascination with the pharaoh who built it: Cheops. look at the man behind the monument - the life and times of Cheops, the greatest pyramid builder of them all.
