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The Complete Pyramids (Complete Series) - Softcover

Lehner, Mark

 
9780500285473: The Complete Pyramids (Complete Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500285470 ISBN 13: 9780500285473
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Mark Lehner brings his many years of field research in Egypt to this definitive book. He examines the pyramids in unprecedented detail, covering the practical aspects the quarries, ramps, and tools used in construction as well as the conceptual ones.Professor Lehner surveys and describes the pyramids across their 3,000-year history, as well as explaining the rituals and mythology, the history of travelers, looters, and archaeologists, and the ways in which the pyramids were an integral part of the Egyptian state.The hundreds of illustrations include computer reconstructions and specially commissioned artists' perspective views of the pyramids and their interior chambers. The book is at once a definitive sourcebook and an entertaining guide for scholars, students, and travelers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Lehner is a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and at the Harvard Semitic Museum.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500285470
ISBN 13 
9780500285473
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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