PYRAMIDS OF GIZA: Facts, Legends & Mysteries

Perhaps the most famous emblems of Ancient Egypt, to this day the Pyramids of Giza continue to confound and seduce visitors and scientists alike. Beginning with Herodotus's 5th century BC observations of these massive monuments, Jean-Pierre Corteggiani leads the reader through historical theories, sketches and excavations of the Pyramids, including recent investigations by Egyptologists Gilles Dormion and Jean-Yves Verd'hurt into a previously undiscovered room of the Great Pyramid. One of the Seven Wonders of the World that still stand today, defying the centuries, these gigantic tombs built more than 4,500 years ago by three great Pharaohs of the 4th Dynasty have long been objects of speculation and mystery. This pocket size profusely illustrated paperback separates fact from fiction to tell the ongoing story. The central conundrum remains of how the Pyramids were built. Here are the many explorers, conquerors, soldiers and pilgrims who have often left their marks in graffiti on the stones. Full illus. in colour, 128 page small softback.