| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
67 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm. |
| Series |
Experience |
|
Experience (DK Pub.)
|
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Ends: Desert sands--the story begins -- Eyewitness: Early pyramids -- Nile Delta -- North Pyramid and Bent Pyramid -- Surveying the site: Giza -- Quarrying the stone -- Moving the blocks -- Laying the foundations -- Catalogue: Tools and measurements -- Water transport -- Nile in flood: Seasonal workers -- Masonry work -- Pyramid rises: Ramp theories -- Grand gallery -- King's chamber -- Adding the capstone -- Removing the ramp -- Finished pyramid awaits... -- Eyewitness: Pharaoh dies -- Egyptian gods and the afterlife -- Mummification -- X-ray of a mummy, from head... -- ... to toe -- Funeral procession and barge -- Procession arrives -- Into the burial chamber -- Pyramid complex -- Eyewitness: Finding the pyramids and Rosetta Stone -- The Sphinx -- Catalogue: Tomb treasures -- Catalogue: Pyramids -- Glossary and index -- Imprint and acknowledgments. |
| Subject |
Great Pyramid (Egypt) -- Juvenile literature.
|
|
Great Pyramid (Egypt)
|
| ISBN |
0756614104 hardcover |
|
9780756614102 |
|
