"Secrets of Lost Empires": Reconstructing the Glories of Ages Past

Barnes, Michael; Brightwell, Robin; Lehner, Mark; Page, Cynthia; Von Hagen, Adriana

ISBN 10: 0563371188 / ISBN 13: 9780563371182

Edité par BBC Books, 1996

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BBC Books, London, 1996. Hardcover. First edition reprint. First edition, second impression. Black cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated throughout with colour and with black and white photographs. Dustjacket. Bottom edge and bottom corner of fore edge of upper and of lower board lightly bumped. A very good copy in a very good dustjacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: "Secrets of Lost Empires": Reconstructing the Glories of Ages Past
• Éditeur: BBC Books
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0563371188
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780563371182
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

Tying in with a BBC2 television series, this book records attempts to solve the mysteries which surround the construction of some of the world's great archaeological treasures, without the help of modern technology. In Egypt, the book explores how the Great Pyramid of Giza was built without the use of iron tools, by quarrying, transporting and raising solid granite, one of the hardest of all stones to work. In Spain an attempt is made to reconstruct an awning over a bullring, similar to the awning which covered the Colisseum in Ancient Rome. In Peru, the book documents the daunting task of building a bridge from grass and twigs over a ravine, and trying to fit huge stones together as the Incas did. And in England the focus is on the Great Trilithon, one of the massive groups of stones at Stonehenge.