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The Red Sea Papyri. Inspector Merer: An eyewitness to the construction of the Pyramid of Khufu.
TALLET Pierre, LEHNER Mark.

The Red Sea Papyri. Inspector Merer: An eyewitness to the construction of the Pyramid of Khufu.

Actes Sud
€34,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25117
Format 17 x 24
Détails 320 p., numerous plates, publisher's hardcover.
Publication Arles, 2021
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782877729758
On March 13, 2013, during an expedition to the Red Sea and while he was busy excavating the oldest known port in the world, Egyptologist Pierre Tallet received an urgent phone call. His team had just unearthed, at another point on the site, a precious papyrus deposit: the archives of the teams that transported the stones of the Great Pyramid along the Nile to the site of Giza, during the reign of Khufu. It was at this latter site that Mark Lehner discovered the stone quarries, the pyramid's construction methods, the city where the builders lived, and even the port where these same ships unloaded their cargo. These two archaeologist-detectives reveal for the first time how they matched information from the papyri with archaeological evidence observable on the ground at Giza, helping us answer this fundamental question: how did the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids?
On March 13, 2013, during an expedition to the Red Sea and while he was busy excavating the oldest known port in the world, Egyptologist Pierre Tallet received an urgent phone call. His team had just unearthed, at another point on the site, a precious papyrus deposit: the archives of the teams that transported the stones of the Great Pyramid along the Nile to the site of Giza, during the reign of Khufu. It was at this latter site that Mark Lehner discovered the stone quarries, the pyramid's construction methods, the city where the builders lived, and even the port where these same ships unloaded their cargo. These two archaeologist-detectives reveal for the first time how they matched information from the papyri with archaeological evidence observable on the ground at Giza, helping us answer this fundamental question: how did the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids?