Author: Craig B. Smith
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588346226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
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.
How the Great Pyramid Was Built
Author: Craig B. Smith
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588346226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588346226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
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.
Egyptian Pyramid
Author: Gillian Clements
Publisher: Sea to Sea Publications
ISBN: 9781597711432
Category : Great Pyramid (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the process of building the largest pyramid in Egypt, built for Pharaoh Khufu, and describes the Egyptians' beliefs and customs of burial.
Publisher: Sea to Sea Publications
ISBN: 9781597711432
Category : Great Pyramid (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the process of building the largest pyramid in Egypt, built for Pharaoh Khufu, and describes the Egyptians' beliefs and customs of burial.
Building the Great Pyramid
Author: Kevin Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Tells how the great pyramid was constructed including design, history, and societal conditions.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Tells how the great pyramid was constructed including design, history, and societal conditions.
khufu
Author: jean -pierre houdin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789771730613
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Solves the riddles of Khufu's pyramid by combining archaeological information and a professional architect's approach.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789771730613
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Solves the riddles of Khufu's pyramid by combining archaeological information and a professional architect's approach.
Building the Great Pyramid in One Year
Author: Gerard C. A. Fonte
Publisher: Algora Pub
ISBN: 9780875865218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Publisher: Algora Pub
ISBN: 9780875865218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Who Built the Pyramid?
Author: Meredith Hooper
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780763673802
Category : Pyramids
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the roles of everyone involved in building Senwosret's pyramid, from the king himself to a lowly water carrier.
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780763673802
Category : Pyramids
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the roles of everyone involved in building Senwosret's pyramid, from the king himself to a lowly water carrier.
Pyramid
Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547348398
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
“The mystery of the pyramids is solved before our eyes” in this illustrated YA guide to their construction by the Caldecott Medal-winning author (Kirkus). In Pyramid, acclaimed author and illustrator David Macaulay explores the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids from the initial planning stages to the methods used to lift stones up to the structure’s highest level. Through concise text and richly detailed black and white illustrations your readers are introduced not only to ancient Egyptian engineering, tools, and labor practices, but also the philosophy of life, death, and afterlife that made these awe-inspiring monuments necessary as a pharaoh’s final resting place. "Macaulay's brilliant Pyramid shows, detail by detail, how the great pharaohs' burial places were conceived and constructed… His draftsmanship is unexcelled, and his book is pharaonic in opulence and design."—Time
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547348398
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
“The mystery of the pyramids is solved before our eyes” in this illustrated YA guide to their construction by the Caldecott Medal-winning author (Kirkus). In Pyramid, acclaimed author and illustrator David Macaulay explores the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids from the initial planning stages to the methods used to lift stones up to the structure’s highest level. Through concise text and richly detailed black and white illustrations your readers are introduced not only to ancient Egyptian engineering, tools, and labor practices, but also the philosophy of life, death, and afterlife that made these awe-inspiring monuments necessary as a pharaoh’s final resting place. "Macaulay's brilliant Pyramid shows, detail by detail, how the great pharaohs' burial places were conceived and constructed… His draftsmanship is unexcelled, and his book is pharaonic in opulence and design."—Time
You Wouldn't Want to be a Pyramid Builder!
Author: Jacqueline Morley
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780531271018
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the construction of an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, the life and various jobs of the workers, and the burial of the pharaoh.
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780531271018
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the construction of an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, the life and various jobs of the workers, and the burial of the pharaoh.
Why the Pharaohs Built the Pyramids with Fake Stones
Author: Joseph Davidovits
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782951482043
Category : Egyptology
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782951482043
Category : Egyptology
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt
Author: Dr A Rosalie David
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113474322X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113474322X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
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.