Operations Carried On at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837
Operations Carried On at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837
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USDAn army officer and politician, Richard William Howard Vyse (1784–53) also made his mark as an Egyptologist. This three-volume work, published in 1840–2, has remained an instructive resource in Egyptology up to the present day. Adopting the style of a journal, with illustrations and diagrams throughout, it narrates in detail his excavations at Giza, surveying and measuring the pyramids. Following Vyse's return to England, the work was continued by the engineer and surveyor John Shae Perring (1813–69). Vyse gives observations of his travels, and of the landscape, people and architecture he encountered, as well as details of the important work he carried out. Most notable was his discovery, using gunpowder, of four new chambers in the Great Pyramid containing 'quarry marks' - graffiti by the pyramid builders. Volume 3 (1842) describes the work continued by Perring on various pyramids, and on the mummy pits at Saqqara.
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December 2014Paperback
9781108075688
276 pages
254 × 178 × 15 mm
0.48kg
57 b/w illus. 1 map
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Remarks upon the map
- 2. Pyramid of Abou Roash
- 3. Pyramids of Abouseir
- 4. Pyramids of Saccara
- 5. Pyramids of Dashoor
- 6. Pyramids of Lisht
- 7. Pyramid of Meydoom
- 8. Pyramid of Illahoon
- 9. Pyramid of Howara
- 10. Pyramids of Biahhmoo
- 11. The Birket Kharron
- 12. Pyramid of El Koofa
- 13. The mummy pits at Saccara
- 14. Discoveries at Tourah
- 15. Remarks on the measures by which the pyramids were built
- 16. The Sphinx
- 17. Remarks on the Egyptian army
- 18. Horses in Egypt and Syria.
