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The Great Pyramid of Khufu is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the World and the only one still standing. No building on earth has inspired more speculation than the Great Pyramid, or raised so many questions. Equipped with only basic tools, how were Ancient Egyptian builders able to achieve such an extraordinary degree of accuracy in its construction? How were stones, some weighing as much as 40 tons, hauled into position so precisely? What was life like for the conscripted laborers who built it, and how long did it take them to complete their task? Building the Great Pyramid traces the history of the exploration of the Giza site, from the earliest Greek and Roman travelers, through the investigations of the Arabian prince Abdullah AlMamun in the ninth century AD, to the work of Athanasius Kircher and John Greaves eight hundred years later. The origins of Egyptology are also examined: the exhaustive surveys carried out under Napoleon following the French invasion of Egypt in 1798, Jean-Francois Champollion's cracking of the hieroglyphic "code," and the work of scholars such as Auguste Mariette and Sir William Flinders Petrie in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Links with

Author

Kevin Jackson; Jonathan Stamp; British Broadcasting Corporation

Publisher

Toronto: Firefly Books

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781552977194

Subjects

History, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.44 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14