Pyramid Builders

Discovery Plus

by Anita Ganeri, Fiona Macdonald

Discover what life was like in the time of the great pyramid builders, from the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt to the Mayan and Aztec civilizations of Central America.

*Enter the tomb of King Tutankhamun.

*See how mummies were made.

*Find out why the Maya and Aztecs made human sacrifices to their gods.

Pharoahs & Mummies by Anita Ganeri originally published in 1996.

Aztecs, Mayas & Incas by Fiona MacDonald originally published in 1998.

51 pages, Hardcover

Published September 15, 2000

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.