Ancient Egypt - The British Museum. Theban Mapping Project. International Association of Egyptologists. Atlas of Ancient Egypt. Beneath the sands of Egypt. From the known to the unknown . . .With its spectacular temples, tombs, monuments, and mummies, as well as esoteric metaphysics, legendary historical characters, and connections to the Bible, ancient Egypt has enticed the human imagination for centuries. This search for understanding and drive to uncover a lost civilization has also been the life work of archaeologist Donald P. Ryan, Ph.D. In Beneath the Sands of Egypt, he offers an intriguing personal account of a career spent researching the remains of Egypt's past-including his headline-making rediscovery of a lost tomb in the Valley of the Kings containing the mummy of the famous female pharaoh Hatshepsut.Since his early childhood, Ryan dreamed of exploration and adventure.
Inspired by his plastic dinosaurs, his books-including Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki-and his father's National Geographic collection, Ryan was determined to become an archaeologist. Terms of useDescriptive content provided by Syndetics™, a Bowker service. (less) King Tutankhamun: the Treasures of the Tomb. The fabulous treasures of Tutankhamun have fascinated the public since their discovery by Howard Carter in 1922. Many books have been written about the boy king and his tomb, but this volume by world-renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass provides the reader with a unique perspective on this extraordinary archaeological find. Images by pioneering photographer Sandro Vannini offer distinctive views of almost 200 of the spectacular artifacts found at the burial site. King Tutankhamun uses carefully selected objects to illustrate the entire ten years of painstaking excavation and documentation carried out by Carter and his team.
Organized to follow the chambers of the tomb in the order in which they were excavated, it illuminates the site's most magnificent artifacts. An experienced field archaeologist who has made many important discoveries himself, Dr. Terms of useDescriptive content provided by Syndetics™, a Bowker service. (less) Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery. On November 26, 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were rewarded after years of searching in the Valley of the Kings by their first sight of "the glint of gold" in the tomb of Tutankhamen.
When they realized that the burial was virtually intact, the staggering responsibility for the recording, clearance, and conservation of this stupendous discovery became an immediate concern. Carter requested the assistance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's (MMA) highly accomplished Theban Expedition photographer, Harry Burton.
Between 1922 and 1933, Burton spent most of his time documenting every aspect of Carter's work on the tomb. This collection of 75 of his photographs, lavishly reproduced in duotone sepia, has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Wonderful Things! : The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the Harry Burton Photographs, which will be at the MMA from late December 2006 through April 2007. (c) Copyright 2010. (less) Egypt: Engineering an Empire. The Secret of the Great Pyramid. The Secret of the Great PyramidHow One Man's Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt's Greatest Mystery Chapter One The Man in Black Almost all Egyptologists receive mail from strangers.
Sometimes it is from reincarnated pharaohs; sometimes it is from prospective tourists who want to know if they can drink the water. (You can't.) No matter what our Egyptological specialty, we all receive communications from retired engineers with theories of how the pyramids were built. Jean-Pierre arrived at precisely 4:00 P.M., as suggested. Jean-Pierre's interest in the Great Pyramid began in 1999 when his father, an engineer, watched a television documentary on the pyramids and realized the program's presentation of how the Great Pyramid was built was all wrong. The father-son team was ideal to tackle this mystery. While his laptop booted up, Jean-Pierre explained how his computer graphics helped him understand the interior and exterior of the Great Pyramid.
(less) Mountains of Pharaohs: The Untold Story of Pyramid Builders. Chapter One The Reign of Sneferu King Sneferu was very pleased. His brother Rahotep, an energetic, handsome young man with black hair and a debonair mustache, had returned from his raid across the southern border into Nubia laden with booty. The Nubians had put up very little fight and surrendered with hardly any bloodshed. The might of the Egyptian king was already a legend in foreign lands; and the arrival of his well-trained troops, breaching the rocky impassability of the First Cataract with speed and efficiency, had struck fear into the hearts of the enemy. Seven thousand healthy men and women had surrendered themselves and two hundred thousand head of precious cattle to the royal expedition; these families would be put to work tilling the royal estates scattered up and down the river Nile, tending the royal herds, and helping to build the royal monuments.
Sneferu was a king revered throughout pharaonic history as a wise and beneficent ruler. (less) Egypt before the Pharaohs.