Secret of the Great Pyramid How One Man's Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt's Greatest Mystery

Name: Secret of the Great Pyramid How One Man's Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt's Greatest Mystery
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ISBN: 9780061655524

ISBN-10: 006165552X

ISBN-13: 9780061655524

Edition: 2009

Authors: Bob Brier, Jean-Pierre Houdin

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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…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/14/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Jean-Pierre Houdin left his Parisian architecture firm in 1999 to devote himself to solving the mystery of the Great Pyramid. He has been awarded the Montgolfier Prize for his research.



Acknowledgments


The Man in Black


Birth of the Pyramid


Meeting with the Master


Imhotep Builds the Step Pyramid


Sneferu: King of the Pyramids


An Architect Is Born


Architect Adrift


A Troubled Bridge?


Hemienu Plans the Great Pyramid


The Underground Burial Chamber


Modern Tomb Raiders: The Search for Hidden Chambers


The Grand Gallery


The Burial Chamber


Hemienu's Solution


First Plans


Anomaly Rising


The Notch


The Internal Ramp


The Capstone


The Difficult Years


The Internal Ramp Goes Public


The Time Machine to Hemienu


The Search for the Internal Ramp


What's Next?


Appendices



The Search for Imhotep



The Lost Pyramid



The Case of the Missing Queen



Making Khufu's Sarcophagus



The Pyramid's Angle


Endnotes


Bibliography


Photography Credits


Index