The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids

ISBN-13: 9780500052112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Mark Lehner

Recenzje

'This landmark, elegantly illustrated book is the first to reveal how raw materials used in the Great Pyramid's construction ... were transported to Giza' - Science

Spis treści

Prologue
Introduction

Part I
Discoveries in the Desert
The Red Sea

Part II
Copper
Sneferu and Khufu and their Pyramid
From Khufu to Khafra on the Red Sea Coast and at Giza
Finding the Papyri
The Challenges of Translating the Papyri
What the Papyri Tell Us

Part IV
How Merer and his Team Transported Stone to Giza
From the Red Sea to the Nile Delta: A Year in the Life of Merer and his Men
From Worker's Village to Port City
Overseer of the Ro She Ankh-haf

Part V
Feeding the Workers
How They Could Have Raised the Stone
How the Pyramids Created a Unified State

Conclusion: Future Discoveries on the Red Sea Coast?
Appendix : Translation of Papyri

O autorze

Pierre Tallet, born in 1966, is an alumnus of the Ecole normale Superieure and former member of the French institute of Archaeology in Cairo. He is now the chair of Egyptology at the Sorbonne. Tallet served as the President of the French Society of Egyptology from 2009 to 2021, and is also a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Since 2001, he has directed or co-directed several archaeological projects in Egypt and Sudan, in particular on the Red Sea sea shore where the old pharaonic harbours of Ayn Soukhna and Wadi el-Jarf were successively identified. He still leads an annual archaeological campaign on the latter site, where the most ancient papyri known to date were found between 2013 and 2018. Mark Lehner has been conducting fieldwork at Giza since the mid-1970s. He ispresident of Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), which is excavating thelarge settlement of the pyramid builders. Among his publications is the bestsellingand award-winning The Complete Pyramids, published by Thames & Hudson.