Lehner, Mark,

Giza and the pyramids : the definitive history / Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass. - Undécima edición. - 560 páginas : ilustraciones ; 29 centímetros

Bibliografía: páginas 537-543. Índice: páginas 544-560.

Time's other horizon -- Quests, puzzles and questions -- Giza in context -- Giza befor Khufu: beginning as a burial ground -- Origins of the pyramid -- Explorers, scholars and expeditions -- Pyramids: funeral, palace and ritual process -- The Great Pyramid of Khufu -- The second pyramid: Khafre -- The great sphinx -- The third pyramid: Mankaure -- The Khentkawes momunent: Giza's puncutuation point -- The development of the Giza cemeteries -- The workers' cemetery -- Living at Giza: worker settlements and pyramid towns -- How they might have built the pyramids -- Giza on the ground: the pyramid projects -- The abandonment of Giza -- New kingdom revival -- Giza in the late period -- Giza developments



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