Operations Carried On at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: With an Account of a Voyage into Upper Egypt, and an Appendix - Brossura

Vyse, Howard

 
9781108075688: Operations Carried On at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: With an Account of a Voyage into Upper Egypt, and an Appendix

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This influential three-volume work, published 1840–2, narrates the excavations at Giza carried out by a British officer and Egyptologist.

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Descrizione del libro

This influential three-volume work, published 1840–2, narrates in detail, with illustrations, important excavations on the pyramids at Giza, as carried out by Richard William Howard Vyse (1784–53). Volume 3 (1842) is an appendix to the first two volumes, and describes the work continued by John Shae Perring (1813–69).

Contenuti

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.

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