The Pyramids
Published on 6. November 2014
512 pages
978-1-78239-680-2 (ISBN)
Description
How did a people who lived nearly five thousand years ago, who knew neither iron nor bronze and who lacked mastery of elementary rules of calculation, manage to construct enormous stone structures with a precision seldom matched even by modern architecture? By one of the world's leading Egyptologists, The Pyramids sets our knowledge of these unique, haunting and perennially fascinating edifices into the context of ancient Egyptian culture and politics.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
200 line drawings, 2 x 8pp colour plate section
File size
14,28 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78239-680-2 (9781782396802)
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Person
Miroslav Verner directed the Czech Institute of Egyptology for seventeen years and is Professor of Egyptology at Charles University in Prague. He has also been guest professor at the universities of Vienna, Hamburg and the American University of Cairo and, since 1976, has been leading the excavations currently being carried out by Czech archaeologists in Abusir
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Note on Usage
- Introduction: The Rediscovery of the Pyramids
- Part One: The Birth of the Pyramids
- Chapter One: Before the Pyramids
- Chapter Two: The Way to Eternity: Ritual and Cult
- Chapter Three: The Construction of the Pyramids
- Part Two: The Pyramids
- Chapter Four: The Old Kingdom (Third to Sixth Dynasty)
- Chapter Five: The Fourth Dynasty-The Greatest of the Great
- Chapter Six: The Fifth Dynasty-When the Sun Ruled
- Chapter Seven: The Sixth Dynasty-The End of an Era
- Chapter Eight: The First Intermediate Period (Seventh Dynasty to the Beginning of the Eleventh)
- Chapter Nine: The Middle Kingdom (Eleventh to Twelfth Dynasty?)
- Chapter Ten: The Second Intermediate Period (Thirteenth to Seventeenth Dynasty)
- Postscript
- Epilogue: The Secret of the Pyramids
- Appendix 1: Basic Dimensions of the Pyramids
- Appendix 2: Egyptologists and Pyramid Scholars
- Appendix 3: Chronological List of Rulers and Dynasties
- Appendix 4: Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Places
