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The inside story, told by excavators of the extraordinary discovery of the worlds oldest papyri, revealing how Egyptian King Khufus men built the Great Pyramid at Giza. Pierre Tallets discovery of the Red Sea Scrollsthe worlds oldest surviving written documentsin 2013 was one of the most remarkable moments in the history of Egyptology. These papyri, written some 4,600 years ago, and combined with Mark Lehners research, changed what we thought we knew about the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Here, for the first time, the world-renowned Egyptologists Tallet and Lehner give us the definitive account of this astounding discovery. The story begins with Tallets hunt for hieroglyphic rock inscriptions in the Sinai Peninsula and leads up to the discovery of the papyri, the diary of Inspector Merer, who oversaw workers in the reign of Pharaoh Khufu in Wadi el-Jarf, the site of an ancient harbor on the Red Sea. The translation of the papyri reveals how the stones of the Great Pyramid ended up in Giza. Combined with Lehners excavations of the harbor at the pyramid construction site the Red Sea Papyri have greatly advanced our understanding of how the ancient Egyptians were able to bui

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Author

Lehner, Mark, Tallet, Pierre

Publisher

Thames and Hudson Ltd

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780500052112

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.7 / 5 (96 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14