| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-214) and index. |
| Contents |
The man in black -- Birth of the Pyramid -- Meeting with the master -- Imhotep builds the step pyramid -- Sneferu: King of the pyramids -- An architect is born -- Architect adrift -- A troubled bridge? -- Hemienu plans the Great Pryamid -- The underground burial chamber -- Modern tomb raiders: the search for hidden chambers -- The grand gallery -- The burial chamber -- Hemienu's solution -- First plans -- Anomaly rising -- The notch -- The internal ramp -- The capstone -- The difficult years -- The internal ramp goes public -- The time machine to Hemienu -- The search for the internal ramp -- What's next. |
| Summary |
The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves between the ancient and the modern. The ancient story chronicles, step-by-step, how a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age could construct one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. To execute something as complex and massive as the Great Pyramid, Egypt needed architects, mathematicians, boat builders, stone masons, and metallurgists. It took twenty years to build the Great Pyramid. By the time its capstone was laid in 2560 B.C., the innovations born of the building quest had transformed agrarian Egypt into the world's most modern, most powerful nation. |
| Subject |
Great Pyramid (Egypt)
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Pyramids -- Egypt -- Design and construction.
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Egypt -- Antiquities.
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| Added Author |
Houdin, Jean-Pierre.
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| ISBN |
9780061655524 |
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006165552X |
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