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The secret of the great pyramid : how one man's obsession led to the solution of ancient Egypt's greatest mystery by Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Nine years ago, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin became obsessed by the centuries-old mystery of how the Great Pyramid was built. For ten hours a day, he labored at his computer to create exquisitely detailed 3-D models of the interior of the Great Pyramid. After five years of effort, the images rotating on his computer screen provided evidence of an astonishing secret. Corkscrewing up the inside of the Great Pyramid is a mile-long ramp, unseen for 4,500 years. The pyramid was built from the inside. This revelation casts a fresh light on the minds that conceived one of the wonders of the ancient world. The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves between the ancient and the modern. The ancient story chronicles, step-by-step, how a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age could construct one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. To execute something as complex and massive as the Great Pyramid, Egypt needed architects, mathematicians, boat builders, stone masons, and metallurgists. It took twenty years to build the Great Pyramid. By the time its capstone was laid in 2560 B.C., the innovations born of the building quest had transformed agrarian Egypt into the world'
Who reads The secret of the great pyramid : how one man's obsession led to the solution of ancient Egypt's greatest mystery?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Books/Collins; HarperCollinsPublishers
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061655531
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science, History
- Rating
- 3.94 / 5 (151 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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