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: 9780061655531

ISBN-10: 0061655538

ISBN-13: 9780061655531

Edition: 2009

Authors: Bob Brier, Jean-Pierre Houdin, Bob Bier

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.484
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