The newest installment of Abrams’ Discoveries series brings the reader to the last of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Pyramids of Giza, which remain among the world’s most mysterious architectural and archaeological achievements. The Great Pyramid and the two smaller pyramids that make up the Giza Necropolis, commissioned by the pharaoh Khufu, or Cheops, around 2560 BC, have fascinated scientists and historians from Antiquity to the present. Beginning with Herodotus’s fifth-century B.C. observations of these massive monuments, author Jean-Pierre Corteggiani leads the reader through historical theories, sketches, and excavations of the Pyramids, including the 2004 investigation by amateur Egyptologists Gilles Dormion and Jean-Yves Verd’hurt into a previously undiscovered room of the Great Pyramid. In addition to the central conundrum—the question of how the pyramids were built—Corteggiani examines the attraction of the site throughout the ages; many explorers, conqueror

The Great Pyramids (Discoveries (Harry Abrams))

History

Corteggiani, Jean-Pierre

Ancient Civilizations

Harry N. Abrams

The Egypt of the Pharaohs at the Cairo Museum

Text: English (translation) 
Original Language: French

Arts & Photography

Gout, Jean-Francois

Leclant, Jean

History & Criticism

Scala Books

Reference

London: Scala Books

L'Egypte des pharaons au Musée du Caire (French Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Hachette

L'art de l'Egypte

Grimal, Nicolas

Michalowski, Kazimierz

ROCCATI, Alessandro

CITADELLES

Para Heródoto, los egipcios eran &laquo,los más religiosos de los hombres&raquo,. La religión era el componente esencial de la civilización faraónica y las divinidades de su panteón, innumerables. Así lo reflejan las paredes de las tumbas y los monumentos que han llegado hasta el presente, repletas de secretas escenas ritua

El gran libro de la mitología egipcia : diccionario ilustrado con 360 imágenes

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

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