The secret of the great pyramid [electronic resource] : how one man's obsession led to the solution of ancient Egypt's greatest mystery / Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin.
2008
DT63 .B654 2008eb
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Title
The secret of the great pyramid [electronic resource] : how one man's obsession led to the solution of ancient Egypt's greatest mystery / Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin.
Author
Brier, Bob.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780061714108 (electronic bk.)
0061714100 (electronic bk.)
9780061714115 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
0061714119 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
0061714100 (electronic bk.)
9780061714115 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
0061714119 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
Publication Details
Pymble, NSW ; New York : HarperCollins e-books, c2008.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
DT63 .B654 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
932/.012
Summary
The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves between the ancient and the modern. The ancient story chronicles, step-by-step, how a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age could construct one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. To execute something as complex and massive as the Great Pyramid, Egypt needed architects, mathematicians, boat builders, stone masons, and metallurgists. It took twenty years to build the Great Pyramid. By the time its capstone was laid in 2560 B.C., the innovations born of the building quest had transformed agrarian Egypt into the world's most modern, most powerful nation.
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Title from PDF title page (viewed Nov. 23, 2008).
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 11193 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 1999 KB).
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Houdin, Jean-Pierre.
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