I Was There When Built P

by John D. Clare

OF ANCIENT EGYPT (I WAS THERE) (map)

Genres: History, Egypt

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Kimball]

Now I know where Pittacus Lore got material for I Am Number Four. At least some of the names anyways. The pyramids are so incomprehensible to me. How they made them back in the olden days with limited (to us) technology and how they made them so well. Can't wait to see them in real life. The author/editor said that the quantity of blocks used construct them and in the limited amount of time they had meant that they were adding three of those huge stone blocks per minute. People were well-oiled machines back then. We could do better to imitate that.

I liked the referenced to Imhotep. I didn't know he was real.

I wonder how much treasure and neat things we can find in peoples sarcophagus's since it seems to be tradition with many cultures to bury them with their possessions. I love how at the end of these neat Living History books they'll say "we don't know everything about this people. One day archaeologists will discover more. Perhaps that will be you with a little luck and hard work."

[Teri]

Definitely an eccentric book--real people dressed up like ancient Egyptians and photographed looking very posed. But--you get an idea of the massive scale of the pyramids, and how they moved those huge rocks, and what it would have been like to fall from so high. Definitely an interesting, unique perspective of ancient Egypt.

[Sarah]

Nice to have long continuous text in a child’s non-fiction book. Informative and with some different facts. I loved the green faced mummy. However the photographic re-enactments were weird.