The Great Pyramid why was it built? And who built it?
The publisher and author John Taylor (1781-1864), who took an interest in various antiquarian matters, published this work in 1859. Using the measurements taken by the seventeenth-century archaeologist John Greaves and by the French savants who had examined the Great Pyramid at Giza during Napoleon&...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2014.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge library collection. Egyptology. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39766044*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Exterior of the Great Pyramid. 1. The pyramids of Gizeh ; 2. Earliest measures of the base of the pyramid ; 3. Various heights ascribed to the great pyramid ; 4. Various estimates of the Greek foot ; 5. The measure of the great pyramid according to Herodotus ; 6. The cubit of Karnak ; 7. The royal or Philetaerian foot ; 8. The sacred cubit of the Jews ; 9. Degrees, minutes, and seconds in the table of constants ; 10. Diameter of the earth
- Part II. Interior of the Great Pyramid. 11. General description of the interior of the great pyramid ; 12. The king's chamber ; 13. The pyramid coffer the standard of all measures ; 14. The pyramid coffer the measure of the laver ; 15. The pyramid coffer the standard of Grecian measures ; 16. The pyramid coffer the standard of English measures ; 17. English weights derived from English measures of capacity ; 18. Grecian weights derived from Grecian measures of capacity ; 19. English and French systems of metrology compared ; 20. Etymological illustrations
- Part III. The founders of the Great Pyramid. 21. Introductory remarks ; 22. The founders not the race of Ham ; 23. These shepherds were an abomination to the Egyptians ; 24. The founders of the great pyramid were the race of Shem ; 25. Noah the probable originator of the work ; 26. The earth divided in the days of Peleg ; 27. The canal of Joseph ; 28. The builders of the tower of Babel were of the race of Ham ; 29. The great pyramid alluded to in the Book of Job ; 30. The great pyramid alluded to in the Book of Psalms ; 31. Origin of the Arabian language ; 32. Arabian numerals preceded alphabetic writing
- Appendix.
