Egypt
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See the above page for the remainder of the short review.
- Hemienu To Houdin: Phase One, Part B
Em Hotep (Keith Payne) The second part of Keith's article Hemienu to Houdin, part of a superbly illustrated series looking at different theories of pyramid construction. Part A can be found here. In Hemienu to Houdin: Phase One, Part A, we looked...
- Hemienu To Houdin
Em Hotep (Keith Payne) Another excellent piece from Keith Payne, stuffed full of diagrams and photographs. Most theories of how the Great Pyramid of Khufu was built agree that some sort of external ramp was required, even if an external ramp alone would...
- 'mr. Mummy' Reveals Great Pyramid Secret: Built From Inside?
Greenwich Citizen The unsolved mystery of how the 482-foot Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was made has captivated the curious for centuries. That fascination brought a standing-room-only crowd to the Bruce Museum some weeks ago when a noted Egyptologist,...
- Bob Brier On Pyramid Construction
http://www.archaeology.org/0705/etc/pyramid.htmlThis is the best summary so far of old and new theories of pyramid construction possibilities, by Egyptologists Bob Brier, on the Archaeology magazine website. It includes helpful diagrams to accompany detailed...
- New Theory Re Construction Of Great Pyramid
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2405133.ece"It was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and the only one of them to remain standing today. Yet the story of how the Great Pyramid of Giza was actually built has remained...
Egypt
Book Review: The Secret of the Great Pyramid
Publishers Weekly
The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man’s Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Mystery
Since its construction 4,500 years ago for Pharaoh Khufu, the Great Pyramid of Giza has remained an engineering mystery. According to Egyptologist Brier (The Murder of Tutankhamen) and architect Houdin, the monument was designed by Khufu’s brother Hemienu, an architectural genius, and built in two decades by 25,000 paid Egyptian construction workers. Having studied the structure minutely and using computer graphics to visualize every aspect of the pyramid and its construction, Houdin offers a radical proposal of how the huge limestone and granite blocks were raised: the pyramid was built from the inside out around a mile-long ramp corkscrewed up to the top, which remains in the pyramid’s walls.
See the above page for the remainder of the short review.
- Hemienu To Houdin: Phase One, Part B
Em Hotep (Keith Payne) The second part of Keith's article Hemienu to Houdin, part of a superbly illustrated series looking at different theories of pyramid construction. Part A can be found here. In Hemienu to Houdin: Phase One, Part A, we looked...
- Hemienu To Houdin
Em Hotep (Keith Payne) Another excellent piece from Keith Payne, stuffed full of diagrams and photographs. Most theories of how the Great Pyramid of Khufu was built agree that some sort of external ramp was required, even if an external ramp alone would...
- 'mr. Mummy' Reveals Great Pyramid Secret: Built From Inside?
Greenwich Citizen The unsolved mystery of how the 482-foot Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was made has captivated the curious for centuries. That fascination brought a standing-room-only crowd to the Bruce Museum some weeks ago when a noted Egyptologist,...
- Bob Brier On Pyramid Construction
http://www.archaeology.org/0705/etc/pyramid.htmlThis is the best summary so far of old and new theories of pyramid construction possibilities, by Egyptologists Bob Brier, on the Archaeology magazine website. It includes helpful diagrams to accompany detailed...
- New Theory Re Construction Of Great Pyramid
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2405133.ece"It was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and the only one of them to remain standing today. Yet the story of how the Great Pyramid of Giza was actually built has remained...