The Complete Pyramids (Complete Series) - Softcover

Mark Lehner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500285470 ISBN 13: 9780500285473

Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Texto en inglés. 25 x 19. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Buen estado de conservación. 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. 556 illustrations, 83 in color

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Reseña del editor

Powerful symbols of remote antiquity, the pyramids have intrigued and fascinated generations. In The Complete Pyramids, newly available in paperback, Mark Lehner surveys the history, building and use of these fascinating and mysterious monuments in unprecedented scope and detail, looking at both the practical aspects – the quarries, ramps and tools used in building them – as well as the conceptual – the cosmology and iconography of the pyramids and the intriguing Pyramid Texts.

Biografía del autor

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0500285470
• ISBN 13: 9780500285473
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256