John Romer provides a unique and
compelling account of exactly how the
Great Pyramid was designed and built,
rediscovering its ancient plan.
“One windy evening
as the branches of the
palm trees rattled in the
darkness outside the windows
of my studio, I drew out the plans
of some of those royal tombs on slips
of tracing paper so that, by placing them
one over the other, I could compare the
changes in their architecture. Even as I
watched the shapes of various tomb plans
twist this way and that down through
the centuries, something unexpected
happened…”
Great Pyramid
Ancient Egypt Revisited
John Romer
Publication 5 April 2007
Extract from the Prologue: The Valley
of the Kings, The Great Pyramid by John Romer
592 pages 92 line diagrams
102 half tones 40 colour figures
978-0-521-87166-2 Hardback £25.00
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“A vast amount has been published on the pyramids, but
this book offers a refreshing and distinctive approach
based on sound scholarship and written in a style that
often strikes a spark in the reader’s imagination. One
comes away reminded what an astonishing building the
Great Pyramid is…”
Uncovers the 1000 year old mysteries of the Great
Pyramid, underlining the extraordinary talents
and the originality of the ancient Egyptians.
Reveals the most recent research and decades of
personal study by an internationally-renowned
archaeologist and populariser of Ancient Egypt.
Barry Kemp, Professor of Egyptology, University of Cambridge
and author of Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation
Provides specially-drawn figures and diagrams
and numerous colour and black and white
photographs, including many unfamiliar and
intriguing old images.
Offers a wealth of new ideas and detail in a form
that is genuinely accessible to all those interested
in Egyptology, architecture and ancient history.
The
John Romer has worked as an archaeologist
in Egypt over four decades, dedicating a great
part of his time to archaeological conservation.
As an aid to raising public awareness of the
importance and fragility of the past he has
made many TV and radio documentaries,
to international critical acclaim.
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“John Romer’s book on the Great Pyramid does justice
to one of the wonders of the world… Romer’s study is
of great interest and wonderful reading, and it should
appeal to those with an amateur interest in ancient
Egypt as much as to the professional Egyptologist.”
William Kelly Simpson, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology,
Yale University
Contents
Part I: Visions of the Pyramid
Part II: The Pyramid-Makers
Part III: The People on the Plateau
Part IV: The Land and the Pyramid
Part V: The Great Inheritance: The First Pyramid
Part VI: The Pyramids of Sneferu
Part VII: Planning the Pyramid
Part VIII: Building the Pyramid
Coda: after Khufu
Exactly how was it built?
How long did it really take?
John Romer
How many people did it take
to build the Great Pyramid?
Ancient Egypt Revisited
Great Pyramid
The
yramid where its internal architecture would be built. And here it is
hat modern plan and ancient building methods join together on the
iza Plateau. For the plan demands that with the excavation of the
velled rectangle of the Pyramid’s four baselines, the setting of the
ertical planes of its two six-squared grids upon the Rocky Knoll
ould have been amongst the first tasks of work that had to be per-
Fig. 157 The west face of
the Great Pyramid with
the stone-lined grave
shaft of Mastaba 4000,
the tomb of Hemiunu, in
the foreground. The stone
work of this shaft is of
the same type as that
built around the so-called
‘Well’ inside the Great
Pyramid.
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