Sticks, Stones, and Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids by Isler, Martin
Sticks, Stones, and Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids by Isler, Martin

Sticks, Stones, and Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids

What do the pyramids of Egypt really represent? What could have driven so many to so great,...
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Author: Martin Isler
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Sticks, Stones, and Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids by Isler, Martin

Sticks, Stones, and Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids

$73.78
Sticks, Stones, and Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids by Isler, Martin

Sticks, Stones, and Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids

$73.78
Author: Martin Isler
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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What do the pyramids of Egypt really represent? What could have driven so many to so great, and often so dangerous, an effort? Was the motivation religious or practical?

Richly illustrated with more than 300 photographs and drawings, Sticks, Stones, and Shadows presents an entirely original approach to the subject of pyramid building. Unlike other books discussing these majestic structures, this book reveals the connection between devices that served both a practical need for survival and a spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. Few have closely examined Egyptian technologies and techniques from the origins of pyramid development to the step-by-step details of how the ground was leveled, how the site was oriented, and how the stone was raised and placed to meet at a distant point in the sky.

Nevertheless, this is much more than a how-to-do-it book. Martin Isler also asks and answers questions virtually ignored for the last century. He discloses, for example, the ancient use of shadows--now denigrated to the ornamental back-yard sundial--but once an important tool for telling the height of an object, geographical directions, the seasons of the year, and the time of day. Isler also reinterprets the ancient stretching of the cord ceremony, which once was thought to have only religious significance but here is shown as the means of establishing the sides of a pyramid.



Author: Martin Isler
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 11/15/2001
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.81lbs
Size: 10.28h x 7.36w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780806133423


Award: Connecticut Book Awards - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2002 pg. 1857
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