The pyramids : the mystery culture, and science of Egypt's great monuments /
Hailed by Science News as "the new seminal text," The Pyramids is the most up-to-date, comprehensive record of Egypt's ancient monuments to become available in the last six decades. Distinguished Egyptologist Miroslav Verner draws from the research of the earliest Egyptologists as wel...
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreward / Zabi Hawass
- Preface
- Introduction : the rediscovery of the pyramids
- Before the pyramids
- The way to eternity : ritual and cult
- The construction of the pyramids
- The old kingdom (third to sixth dynasty)
- The fourth dynasty : the greatest of the great
- The fith dynasty : when the sun ruled
- The sixth dynasty : the end of an era
- The first intermediate period (seventh dynasty to the beginning of the eleventh)
- The middle kingdom (eleventh to twelfth dynasty?)
- The second intermediate period (thirteenth to seventeenth dynasty)
- Postscript
- Epilogue : the secret of the pyramids
- Appendix 1 : basic dimensions of the pyramids
- Appendix 2 : Egyptologists and pyramid scholars
- Appendix 3 : chronological list of rulers and dynasties
- Appendix 4 : glossary
- Selected bibliography
- Names index
- Places index.