The secret of the great pyramid
Subtitle: how one man's obsession led to the solution of ancient Egypt's greatest mystery
By: Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin.
Contributors: Houdin, Jean-Pierre.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Smithsonian Books/Collins; HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780061655524
Subjects: Great Pyramid (Egypt); Pyramids -- Egypt -- Design and construction; Egypt -- Antiquities
Other titles: Great pyramid
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.