Pyramid: How and Why it Was Built
Language: English
Published by BBC Books, 2002
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- Title
- Pyramid: How and Why it Was Built
- Author
- Kevin Jackson; Jonathan Stamp
- Publisher
- BBC Books
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0563488034
- ISBN 13
- 9780563488033
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Review
Kevin Jackson and Jonathan Stamp's account of how the pyramids may have been built covers various possibilities, and shows that the Great Pyramid could have been built in around 20 years by a workforce of quite manageable proportions. But perhaps the two most interesting sections of the book are the chapter on the everyday life of a Pyramid builder--a willing conscript, not a slave--and the last few chapters, on those who have explored and examined the pyramids over the centuries, and their often weird and wonderful theories.
Although this is, really, an attractively-illustrated coffee-table book, the text is informative and clear. In places, though, the authors talk down to the reader; in discussing the three spiritual aspects of a person, the ka, ba and akh, for example, they write "Those who find it hard to assimilate this curious idea might find it helpful to recall the Christian idea of the Trinity." But despite that, those who enjoyed the TV documentary will find this a useful companion to it. -—David V Barrett
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