The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb

The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb

Author: Talbot Mundy

Publisher:

Published: 2012-03

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781434440624

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Originally published in 1935, "The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb" features Mundy's hero Jeff Ramsden, as he sets out to aid the beautiful Joan Angela Leich, whose interests in Egypt have brought her unwelcome attention. Ramsden as Joan are soon off to the desert in search of Khufu's tomb -- and whatever treasures await!


The Secret Diaries of Hemiunu, Architect of the Great Pyramid

The Secret Diaries of Hemiunu, Architect of the Great Pyramid

Author: Derek Hitchins

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-04-13

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 144574824X

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Diaries of Hemiunu, Architect of the Great Pyramid, reveal his privileged, yet dangerous, life as royal architect to Khufu. Diaries answer age-old questions about the design and building of the pyramids, but also about royal-family 'goings-on,' succession rivalries and murder in the harem...


The Great Pyramid Void Enigma

The Great Pyramid Void Enigma

Author: Scott Creighton

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1591434033

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• Analyzes ancient Coptic-Egyptian texts and evidence from astronomy and archaeology to show how the Big Void may be a grand “Hall of Ancestors” • Explores the controversy surrounding the discovery of the Big Void and debunks many of the theories regarding the purpose of this massive new “chamber” • Reveals how the Great Pyramid was built by Khufu as an indestructible “recovery vault” to help Egyptian civilization rebuild after an anticipated cataclysm In November 2017, an international team of more than 30 scientists published the results of their two-year-long Great Pyramid research project in the journal Nature. Using an advanced imaging technique known as muon radiography, three groups working independently from each other discovered a massive, previously unknown space within the Great Pyramid of Giza. Mainstream Egyptologists suggest that the “Big Void” is simply a stress-relieving device for the Grand Gallery. But, as Scott Creighton reveals, ancient Coptic-Egyptian texts describe exactly what the Big Void is. Exploring the controversy surrounding the Big Void, Creighton artfully debunks many of the theories about the purpose of this massive chamber as well as other long-held Egyptology beliefs. Analyzing the Coptic-Egyptian texts and evidence from astronomy, archaeology, and other sources, the author reveals how the Great Pyramid was built by Khufu as an indestructible recovery vault to help Egyptian civilization rebuild after a cataclysmic natural disaster--a rapid pole shift and subsequent deluge--predicted by his astronomer-priests. And the key component of the recovery vault would have been the Hall of the Ancestors, a sealed safe haven containing the mummified remains of the Osiris Kings, deceased pharaohs who would seek the benevolence of the gods to ensure Egypt’s recovery from the disaster.


The Secret of the Great Pyramid

The Secret of the Great Pyramid

Author: Bob Brier

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0061981788

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A decade ago, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin became obsessed by the centuriesold question: How was the Great Pyramid built? How, in a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age, could such a massive, complex, and enduring structure have been envisioned and constructed? Laboring at his computer ten hours a day for five years—creating exquisitely detailed 3-D models of the Pyramid's interior—Houdin finally had his answer. It was a startling revelation that cast a fresh light on the minds that conceived one of the wonders of the ancient world. Written by world-renowned Egyptologist Bob Brier in collaboration with Houdin, The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves deftly between the ancient and the modern, chronicling two equally fascinating interrelated histories. It is a remarkable account of the step-by-step planning and assembling of the magnificent edifice—the brainchild of an innovative genius, the Egyptian architect Hemienu, who imagined, organized, and oversaw a monumental construction project that took more than two decades to complete and that employed the services of hundreds of architects, mathematicians, boatbuilders, stonemasons, and metallurgists. Here also is the riveting story of Jean-Pierre Houdin's single-minded search for solutions to the mysteries that have bedeviled Egyptologists for centuries, such as the purpose of the enigmatic Grand Gallery and the Pyramid's crack.


Science-fiction, the Early Years

Science-fiction, the Early Years

Author: Everett Franklin Bleiler

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 1032

ISBN-13: 9780873384162

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In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.


The Followers of Horus

The Followers of Horus

Author: Renée F. Friedman

Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13:

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Amongst Egyptologists young and old Michael Hoffman is remembered with great affections; this volume of studies in Ancient Egypt is offered as a tribute to his memory. Contributions are: Three Questions for the Archaeologist (William Y Adams), On Ethnographic Analogies (Christian E Guksch), Michael Hoffman in Cairo (Georgette Scarzella), Settlement at Predynastic Hierakonpolis (Fred Harlan), Beer in Egypt (Jeremy Geller), Antibiotics Produced through Grain Storage Practices: recognition and implications for the Egyptian Predynastic (James O Mills), Chipped Stone-Working Craftsmen in Egypt (Diane L Holmes), Predynastic Egyptian Finewares (Hany Hamroush, Michael Lockhart and Ralph Allen), Mammalian Fauna at Hierakonpolis (John E McArdle), Development of Civilization in Egypt and South Asia (Walter A Fairservis), Sequence of Artists Strokes on the Lid from Hierakonpolis (May Trad), Two Lions from Upper Egypt: Hierakonpolis and Koptos (Barbara Adams), Hierakonpolis Ivories in Oxford (Helen Whitehouse), Status of Early Egyptian Temples (David O'Connor), Excavations at Hk64 (Renee Friedman), Predynastic Animal-headed Boats (Michael A Berger), Cenozoic Rivers: the Nile Problem (Bathay Issawi and John F. McCauley), Late Pleistocene Human Occupation of the Suez Rift, Egypt (Susan L Gawarecki and Steven K Perry), Dating Saharan Rock Art (Alfred Muzzolini), Neolithic Food Economies in the Eastern Sahara (Fred Wendorf and Angela Close), Predynastic Hearths in Upper Egypt (Pierre M Vermeesch, Etienne Paulissen, Dirk Huyge, Katherine Newmann, William Van Neer and Philip Van Peer), Carbon-14 Dates from El Omari (Bodil Mortensen), Neolithic-Predynastic Transition in the Fayum Depression (Robert J Wenke and Douglas J Brewer), Predynastic Chronology at Naqada (Joan Crowfoot Payne), Measuring Social Inequality at Armant (William A Griswold), Predynastic Cemeteries at Khozam (Stan Hendrickx), Another Predynastic Pot with Forged Decoration (Carter Lupton), Two Ivory Boxes from Graves at Minshat Abu Omar (Karla Kroeper and Lech Krzyzaniak), Architecture with Niches at Buto (Thomas von der Way), Egyptian Desert and Prehistory (Joseph Majer), Making of Egypt (Harry S Smith), Des scenes zoomorphes predynastiques en relief (Krzysztof M Cialowicz), Horus Krokodil (Gunter Dreyer), Evaluation of the "Thinite" Potmarks (Edwin C M van den Brink), Origins of Egyptian Writing (Kathryn A. Bard), Mythogenesis of Power in the Early Egyptian State (Fekri Hassan), Egyptian Weeds of Antiquity (M Nabil El Hadidi), A Burial with an Unusual Plaster Mask in the Western Cemetery of Khufu's Pyramid (Zahi A Hawass), Once Again the Date of the New Kingdom Pylon at Edfu (William J Murnane and Frank J Yurco), UNECSO, Egypt and the U.S.


How the Great Pyramid Was Built

How the Great Pyramid Was Built

Author: Craig B. Smith

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 2018-02-20

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1588346269

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Going beyond even the expertise of archaeologists and historians, world-class engineer Craig B. Smith explores the planning and engineering behind the incredible Great Pyramid of Giza. How would the ancient Egyptians have developed their building plans, devised work schedules, managed laborers, solved specific design and engineering problems, or even improvised on the job? The answers are here, along with dazzling, one-of-a-kind color photographs and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations of tools, materials, and building techniques the ancient masters used. In his foreword to the book, Egypt's Undersecretary of State for the Giza Monuments Zahi Hawass explains the importance of understanding the Great Pyramid as a straightforward construction project.


Library Journal

Library Journal

Author: Melvil Dewey

Publisher:

Published: 1935

Total Pages: 1120

ISBN-13:

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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.