Before the pyramids
Subtitle: cracking archaeology's greatest mystery
By: Christopher Knight and Alan Butler
Contributors: Butler, Alan, 1951-
Publisher: Watkins
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781907486661
Subjects: Megalithic monuments; Ancient Civilization; Antiquities; Pyramids
Description: Presents information on the authors' theory that an advanced civilization existed prior to the building of the Egyptian pyramids and that the plan of the pyramids is based on the earlier henges of North Yorkshire, England.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Giza enigma; title: Star watchers; title: The silent stones speak; title: The circles of the sky; title: Giant henges and their uses; title: Searching for Sirius; title: Overturning old ideas; title: Squaring the circle; title: Sailing to the stars; title: Revelation in Rome; title: Celts, Druids, and Freemasonry; title: A new Jerusalem; title: The founding fathers; title: The proportions of the gods; title: Appendices; title: 1. The planning of the Thornborough henge complex; title: 2. Placing the middle henge; title: 3. Fixing the dogleg; title: 4. Using the megalithic pendulum; title: 5. The Minoan foot and the standard foot; title: 6. Estimating the circumference of the earth; title: James Russell BSc C. Eng. M.I.E.I.; title: 7. The megalithic system explained; title: 8. The Pentagon and the 32nd degree of Scottish rite Freemasonry; title: 9. The centre of the District of Columbia; title: 10. Thinking styles and academic objectivity.