'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
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
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.