Discoveries: The Great Pyramids

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The latest installment of Abrams’ Discoveries series brings the reader to the last of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Pyramids of Giza, which remain some of the world’s most mysterious architectural and archaeological achievements. The Great Pyramid and the two smaller pyramids that make up the Giza Necropolis, commissioned by the pharaoh Khufu, or Cheops, around 2560 BC, have fascinated scientists and historians from Antiquity to the present. Beginning with Herodotus’s fifth-century B.C. observations of these massive monuments, writer Jean-Pierre Corteggiani leads the reader through historical theories, sketches, and excavations of the Pyramids, including the 2004 investigation by amateur Egyptologists Gilles Dormion and Jean-Yves Verd’hurt into a in the past undiscovered room of the Great Pyramid. Along with the central conundrum—the question of how the pyramids were built—Corteggiani examines the attraction of the website right through the ages; many explorers, conquerors, soldiers, and pilgrims made their way to the Pyramids, frequently leaving their marks in graffiti on the stones. Most likely the most famous emblems of Ancient Egypt, to this present day the Pyramids of Giza continue to confound and seduce visitors and scientists alike.

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