The Great Pyramid : ancient Egypt revisited
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The Great Pyramid : ancient Egypt revisited
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 540-555) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The Great Pyramid's eerily precise architecture has for centuries both astounded and puzzled archaeologists and has given rise to numerous modern fantasies concerning the so-called 'Mystery of the Pyramids'. Sweeping away centuries of myth and confusion, John Romer describes for the first time exactly how the Great Pyramid was designed and built. He argues that the pyramid makers worked from a single plan whose existence has long been doubted and even denied by scholars. Moreover, the Great Pyramid's unique architecture is integral to the way it was built, and for its builders the tasks of construction and design were not separate as they are now. By placing this awesome monument in its genuine contemporary context, this book underlines the extraordinary talents and the originality of the ancient Egyptians at the time of King Khufu.
目次
- Part I. Visions of the Pyramid: 1. Introduction
- 2. Making the mystery
- 3. Surveying Giza
- 4. Excavating Giza
- 5. The pyramid's plan
- 6. The pyramid's timetable
- Part II. The Pyramid-Makers: The Ghosts in the Cemetery: 7. At the court of the King
- 8. The adventures of the Vizier
- 9. The new Egyptians
- 10. The social contract
- Part III. The People on the Plateau: 11. Working the stone
- 12. The Giza quarry
- 13. Fire and the pyramid
- 14. Entrepot and accommodation
- 15. The living city
- 16. Coda: thinking with stone
- Part IV. The Land and the Pyramid: 17. Prospecting Egypt
- 18. Desert copper
- 19. Aswan granite
- 20. Tura limestone
- 21. The river
- 22. The Giza ramps
- 23. Coda: the commanding landscape
- Part V. The Great Inheritance: The First Pyramid: 24. The spirit and the tomb
- 25. Mud to stone
- 26. To make a pyramid
- 27. Accommodating Djoser
- Part VI. The Pyramids of Sneferu: 28. The Meidum pyramid
- 29. The failed pyramid
- 30. The jubilee pyramid
- 31. The long journey of the spirit
- 32. The dark interior
- 33. Two last works
- 34. Coda: the legacy
- Part VII. Planning the Pyramid: 35. Choosing Giza
- 36. Levelling the site
- 37. The plan inside the pyramid
- 38. The plan beside the pyramid
- 39. Numbers
- 40. Stars
- 41. Coda: considering the architecture
- Part VIII. Building the Pyramid: 42. In the beginning
- 43. Setting the lines
- 44. The miniature shafts
- 45. The grand gallery
- 46. The burial chamber
- 47. To the top
- 48. After the pyramid
- 49. The rites of death
- 50. Coda: after Khufu
- 51. Stone
- 52. Spirit.
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