The Great Pyramids

by Jean-Pierre Corteggiani

The newest installment of Abrams’ Discoveries series brings the reader to the last of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Pyramids of Giza, which remain among the world’s most mysterious architectural and archaeological achievements. The Great Pyramid and the two smaller pyramids that make up the Giza Necropolis, commissioned by the pharaoh Khufu, or Cheops, around 2560 BC, have fascinated scientists and historians from Antiquity to the present. Beginning with Herodotus’s fifth-century B.C. observations of these massive monuments, author Jean-Pierre Corteggiani leads the reader through historical theories, sketches, and excavations of the Pyramids, including the 2004 investigation by amateur Egyptologists Gilles Dormion and Jean-Yves Verd’hurt into a previously undiscovered room of the Great Pyramid. In addition to the central conundrum—the question of how the pyramids were built—Corteggiani examines the attraction of the site throughout the ages; many explorers, conqueror

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Ancient History

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 9, 2006

About the author

Jean-Pierre Corteggiani is a French Egyptologist, and was Director of Scientific and Technical relations at IFAO until 2007.

In 1993, a dam should be built on the presumed site of the lighthouse of Alexandria. A rescue operation was entrusted to Jean-Yves Empereur and Jean-Pierre Corteggiani to undertake an excavation campaign.

In 2001, the Prix Jean Edward Goby, of the Institut de France was awarded to Corteggiani for his work on Ancient Egypt.

Reviews

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Lady Books Dreamer · Rating 5 out of 5]

El tema de las pirámides es algo que me causa mucha intriga y ojo que aunque parezca pequeño, tiene muchísima información e imágenes en su interior. Porque a ver, si os soy sincera, me encantan los libros históricos pero no los suelo leer demasiado ya que tantísimo texto sin ninguna imagen, me cuesta un poquito leerlos ya que se me suelen hacer espesos. Sin embargo, si se acompaña al texto con imágenes o dibujos me ayuda más a entender de lo que se está hablando o de quién es o de dónde y lo disfruto más. Por ejemplo en este caso había una parte en la que hablaban del interior de las pirámides y justo al lado había un dibujo del interior por lo que entiendo mejor la distribución y la información de lo que se explica.

[Rana Adham · Rating 4 out of 5]

An objective, concise and realistic account of Giza's three pyramids. Very interesting and full of relevant photographs, illustrations and historical accounts.

[Jordan Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

This concise little book concentrated on the discovery and first explorations and studies on the Pyramids of Egypt, not actually approaching the architectural wonders historically.
Included many paintings done by early researchers and photographs of explorers.
Couldn't Corteggiani have included more history, though?