The Great Pyramids (Discoveries (Harry Abrams))

ISBN: 0810994585

Author: Corteggiani, Jean-Pierre

Condition: Used

The newest installment of Abrams Discoveries series brings the reader to the last of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Pyramids of Giza, which remain among the worlds most mysterious architectural and archaeological achievements. The Great Pyramid and the two smaller pyramids that make up the Giza Necropolis, commissioned by the pharaoh Khufu, or Cheops, around 2560 BC, have fascinated scientists and historians from Antiquity to the present. Beginning with Herodotuss fifth-century B.C. observations of these massive monuments, author Jean-Pierre Corteggiani leads the reader through historical theories, sketches, and excavations of the Pyramids, including the 2004 investigation by amateur Egyptologists Gilles Dormion and Jean-Yves Verdhurt into a previously undiscovered room of the Great Pyramid. In addition to the central conundrumthe question of how the pyramids were builtCorteggiani examines the attraction of the site throughout the ages; many explorers, conqueror