The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man's Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt's Greatest Mystery

by Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin

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The Secret of the Great Pyramid is a thrilling intellectual adventure story about the most exciting discovery in Egyptology in decades. Bob Brier, along with French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, tells the remarkable true story of Houdin's obsession with Egypt's Great Pyramid, one of the Seven Wonders of the World: how, in an ancient agrarian society not long removed from the Stone Age, such a remarkable structure could have been envisioned and constructed...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:006165552X

ISBN13:9780061655524

Release Date:October 2008

Publisher:Smithsonian Books (DC)

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.08 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Ancient Egypt History Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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