A01=Miroslav Verner
ancient egypt
archaeology
Author_Miroslav Verner
Category=NKD
egypt
egyptian
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history
middle east
pyramids
social science
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- ISBN 9781843548904
- Weight: 475g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2009
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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How did a people who lived nearly five thousand years ago, who knew neither iron nor bronze and who lacked mastery of elementary rules of calculation, manage to construct enormous stone structures with a precision seldom matched even by modern architecture? By one of the world's leading Egyptologists, The Pyramids sets our knowledge of these unique, haunting and perennially fascinating edifices into the context of ancient Egyptian culture and politics.
Miroslav Verner directed the Czech Institute of Egyptology for seventeen years and is Professor of Egyptology at Charles University in Prague. He has also been guest professor at the universities of Vienna, Hamburg and the American University of Cairo and, since 1976, has been leading the excavations currently being carried out by Czech archaeologists in Abusir
