They Built The Pyramids

Author : Joseph Davidovits
Publisher : Geopolymer Institute
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782951482029

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They Built the Pyramids by Joseph Davidovits Pdf

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. The author sweeps aside the conventional image which cripples Egyptology and delivers a captivating and surprising view of this civilisation; the first complete presentation on how the pyramids were built. The revelations are sensational, especially when he explains why the pharaohs stopped building great pyramids because of an over-exploitation of raw materials and a likely environmental disaster. He charts the rise of this technology, its apogee at Giza, and the decline. Everything is logical, everything fits into place.

Author : Bob Moores
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781532077050

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Building the Pyramids by Bob Moores Pdf

This book examines the architectural achievements of the Egyptian pyramid builders and how they may have accomplished those deeds. Many of their building techniques we today cannot explain. The baffling puzzle of how the stones were raised is one of these. The big puzzle aside, many minor mysteries are for the first time explained. Egyptologists agree that those performing the heavy labor were conscripted citizens, not slaves. The builders were inventive, motivated, daring, and superbly organized. They made mistakes, the price of innovation. Still, they persevered, and created some of the most impressive monuments in history. This book should help the reader understand the problems the builders faced, and instill admiration of their work.

Author : Craig B. Smith
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588346223

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How the Great Pyramid Was Built by Craig B. Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Chris Massey
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 1846247349

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The Pyramids of Egypt by Chris Massey Pdf

This engaging account is the result of Massey's pool-side ponderings, in which he gives a detailed alternative theory of how the ancient Egyptians could have used water to their advantage to make pyramid building much easier.

Author : Joseph Davidovits
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Egyptology
ISBN : 2951482043

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Why the Pharaohs Built the Pyramids with Fake Stones by Joseph Davidovits Pdf

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.

Author : Karen Latchana Kenney
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512468434

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Mysteries of the Egyptian Pyramids by Karen Latchana Kenney Pdf

Massive pyramids tower over the Giza Plateau near Cairo, Egypt. Built in the Bronze Age, these immense stone structures were engineered with remarkable precision. How did the ancient Egyptians construct them without the use of modern tools? Why were they built? Throughout the centuries, historians and archaeologists have studied the pyramids and other Egyptian artifacts in search of possible answers to these questions. The pyramids are filled with mysterious doors and passageways—what other secrets and treasures might lie inside? Find out more about the myths, science, and technology surrounding the creation and exploration of the Egyptian pyramids.

Author : Bob Brier,Jean-Pierre Houdin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061981784

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The Secret of the Great Pyramid by Bob Brier,Jean-Pierre Houdin Pdf

A decade ago, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin became obsessed by the centuriesold question: How was the Great Pyramid built? How, in a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age, could such a massive, complex, and enduring structure have been envisioned and constructed? Laboring at his computer ten hours a day for five years—creating exquisitely detailed 3-D models of the Pyramid's interior—Houdin finally had his answer. It was a startling revelation that cast a fresh light on the minds that conceived one of the wonders of the ancient world. Written by world-renowned Egyptologist Bob Brier in collaboration with Houdin, The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves deftly between the ancient and the modern, chronicling two equally fascinating interrelated histories. It is a remarkable account of the step-by-step planning and assembling of the magnificent edifice—the brainchild of an innovative genius, the Egyptian architect Hemienu, who imagined, organized, and oversaw a monumental construction project that took more than two decades to complete and that employed the services of hundreds of architects, mathematicians, boatbuilders, stonemasons, and metallurgists. Here also is the riveting story of Jean-Pierre Houdin's single-minded search for solutions to the mysteries that have bedeviled Egyptologists for centuries, such as the purpose of the enigmatic Grand Gallery and the Pyramid's crack.

Author : David Macaulay
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1982-04-26
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547348391

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Pyramid by David Macaulay Pdf

“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

Author : John Taylor (Publisher.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000263668

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The great pyramid; why was it built? & who built it?. by John Taylor (Publisher.) Pdf

Author : Meredith Hooper
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Pyramids
ISBN : 0763673803

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Who Built the Pyramid? by Meredith Hooper Pdf

Describes the roles of everyone involved in building Senwosret's pyramid, from the king himself to a lowly water carrier.

Author : Martin Isler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806133422

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Sticks, Stones, and Shadows by Martin Isler Pdf

What do the pyramids of Egypt really represent? What could have driven so many to so great, and often so dangerous, an effort? Was the motivation religious or practical? Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and drawings, this book presents an original approach to the subject of pyramid building. It reveals the connection between devices that served both a practical need for survival and a spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. It examines Egyptian technologies and techniques from the origins of pyramid development to the step-by-step details of how the ground was leveled, how the site was oriented, and how the stone was raised and placed to meet at a distant point in the sky. Here the author also asks and answers questions virtually ignored for the last century. He discloses, for example, the ancient use of shadows, now denigrated to the ornamental back-yard sundial, but once an important tool for telling the height of an object, geographical directions, the seasons of the year, and the time of day. He also reinterprets the ancient "stretching of the cord" ceremony, which once was thought to have only religious significance but here is shown as the means of establishing the sides of a pyramid.

Author : Megan Cooley Peterson
Publisher : Black Rabbit Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1644662566

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The Egyptian Pyramids: How Did They Get Built? by Megan Cooley Peterson Pdf

The past is full of mysterious events. How did ancient people build pyramids. What is Stonehenge for? Maybe the explanations for these events are simple ... or maybe there's something strange going on. Explore history's mysteries through closely level text, dynamic imagery, and visual infographics.

Author : Mark Lehner,Pierre Tallet
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500777022

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The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids by Mark Lehner,Pierre Tallet Pdf

The inside story, told by excavators of the extraordinary discovery of the world’s oldest papyri, revealing how Egyptian King Khufu’s men built the Great Pyramid at Giza. Pierre Tallet’s discovery of the Red Sea Scrolls—the world’s oldest surviving written documents—in 2013 was one of the most remarkable moments in the history of Egyptology. These papyri, written some 4,600 years ago, and combined with Mark Lehner’s research, changed what we thought we knew about the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Here, for the first time, the world-renowned Egyptologists Tallet and Lehner give us the definitive account of this astounding discovery. The story begins with Tallet’s hunt for hieroglyphic rock inscriptions in the Sinai Peninsula and leads up to the discovery of the papyri, the diary of Inspector Merer, who oversaw workers in the reign of Pharaoh Khufu in Wadi el-Jarf, the site of an ancient harbor on the Red Sea. The translation of the papyri reveals how the stones of the Great Pyramid ended up in Giza. Combined with Lehner’s excavations of the harbor at the pyramid construction site the Red Sea Papyri have greatly advanced our understanding of how the ancient Egyptians were able to build monuments that survive to this day. Tallet and Lehner narrate this thrilling discovery and explore how the building of the pyramids helped create a unified state, propelling Egyptian civilization forward. This lavishly illustrated book captures the excitement and significance of these seminal findings, conveying above all how astonishing it is to discover a contemporary eyewitness testimony to the creation of the only remaining Wonder of the Ancient World.

Author : Jane Chisholm,Struan Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1409599760

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Who Built the Pyramids? by Jane Chisholm,Struan Reid Pdf

Packed full of fun and facts, accompanied by internet links, about everyday life in ancient Egypt, this book answers questions like what were pyramids for? Why are they so big? How were mummies made? And, why did the Egyptians write on walls?

Author : Dorothea Arnold
Publisher : Rizzoli International
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047848646

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When the Pyramids Were Built by Dorothea Arnold Pdf

Masterworks from a golden era of ancient Egyptian culture are gathered in this volume, which accompanies a landmark exhibition organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, running from September 16, 1999 through January 9, 2000. 130 color illustrations.