The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt RevisitedCambridge University Press, 19/03/2007 - 564 من الصفحات The Great Pyramid's eerily precise architecture has for centuries both astounded and puzzled archaeologists and has given rise to numerous modern fantasies concerning the so-called 'Mystery of the Pyramids'. Sweeping away centuries of myth and confusion, John Romer describes for the first time exactly how the Great Pyramid was designed and built. He argues that the pyramid makers worked from a single plan whose existence has long been doubted and even denied by scholars. Moreover, the Great Pyramid's unique architecture is integral to the way it was built, and for its builders the tasks of construction and design were not separate as they are now. By placing this awesome monument in its genuine contemporary context, this book underlines the extraordinary talents and the originality of the ancient Egyptians at the time of King Khufu. |
المحتوى
the Valley of the Kings 16 | 1 |
Introduction | 13 |
Surveying Giza | 39 |
Excavating Giza | 47 |
The Pyramids plan | 58 |
The Pyramids timetable | 67 |
SECTION | 79 |
The social contract | 96 |
To make a pyramid | 241 |
Accommodating Djoser | 251 |
SECTION TWO The pyramids of Sneferu | 263 |
The failed pyramid | 268 |
The jubilee pyramid | 275 |
The long journey of the spirit | 279 |
The dark interior | 285 |
Two last works | 290 |
SECTION TWO The people on the Plateau | 103 |
The Giza quarry | 113 |
Fire and the Pyramid | 121 |
Entrepôt and accommodation | 132 |
The living city | 141 |
thinking with stone | 147 |
Part Three The land and the Pyramid | 153 |
Prospecting Egypt | 155 |
Desert copper | 164 |
Aswan granite | 174 |
Tura limestone | 180 |
The river | 187 |
The Giza ramps | 196 |
the commanding landscape | 210 |
Part Four The great inheritance | 221 |
SECTION ONE The first pyramid | 223 |
Mud to stone | 231 |
the legacy | 297 |
Part Five Planning the Pyramid | 301 |
Choosing Giza | 303 |
Levelling the site | 310 |
The plan inside the Pyramid | 316 |
The plan beside the Pyramid | 329 |
Numbers | 338 |
Stars | 344 |
In the beginning | 359 |
The miniature shafts | 381 |
To the top | 400 |
The rites of death | 420 |
Spirit | 440 |
A timeline for Sneferus major pyramid | 453 |
540 | |
Acknowledgements | 556 |
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