The Pyramids of Giza (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Thomson, Christopher Birdwood

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133014774X ISBN 13 : 9781330147740

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the Great Pyramids and their hidden passages, from the main tombs to the mastaba cemeteries.

This accessible guide walks you through the pyramids on the Giza plateau, detailing construction, chambers, and the funerary practices of ancient Egypt. It covers the three famous pyramids, their alterations in design, and the surrounding temples and mounds of tombs that echo a rich history of royal burial and daily life in antiquity.

• Understand how the pyramids were built, including entrances, passages, and the role of chambers and sarcophagi.
• Learn about the mastaba tombs, false doors, chapels, and the growing importance of tomb interiors in later periods.
• Discover what visitors today can see, from the Sphinx and temples to the Great Pyramid’s top views and interior routes.
• Get a sense of daily life in ancient Egypt through depictions of offerings, work, and the beliefs about life after death.

Ideal for readers who want a clearer, on-site sense of Egypt’s monumental tombs and their enduring mystery.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Pyramids of Giza

Everyone who comes to Egypt has heard of the pyramids, but comparatively few know more about them than that they are tall and pointed, and, in a vague way, that they are very old. Some people have an idea that they were the buildings that the Children of Israel built for Pharaoh under the lash of Egyptian overseers, and it surprises many when they come to realise that the pyramids had been standing for more than a thousand years before the Children of Israel ever saw Egypt. Truly the pyramids are worth seeing beyond most sights that men travel far to see; they are the oldest structures of stone in all the world and they are among the great things which cannot be hackneyed or belittled by the crowds that go to look at them: electric trams and picnic parties round about their base may seem incongruous and vulgar, but let us move but a few yards away into the solitude of the desert and we cannot but feel the solemn majesty of these mighty tombs which have looked down on so many generations of mankind.

For they are tombs, the greatest tombs in the world; tombs of kings who believed themselves gods and, nearly 5000 years ago, prepared for themselves a resting place that they thought fitting for them. Great kings and wealthy they must have been to have possessed such vast sums as the Pyramids must have cost. How did they get their wealth? Why are their tombs here at Giza? Why did they want to build such tombs at all?

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133014774X
• ISBN 13: 9781330147740
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 32
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