Operations Carried On at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 3 Volume Set: With an Account of a Voyage into Upper Egypt, and an Appendix (Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology)

An army officer and politician, Richard William Howard Vyse (1784-53) also made his mark as an Egyptologist. This three-volume work, published in 1840-2, has remained an instructive resource in Egyptology up to the present day. Adopting the style of a journal, with illustrations and diagrams throughout, it narrates in detail his excavations at Giza, surveying and measuring the pyramids. Following Vyse's return to England, the work was continued by the engineer and surveyor John Shae Perring (1813-69). Vyse gives observations of his travels, and of the landscape, people and architecture he encountered, as well as details of the important work he carried out. Most notable was his discovery, using gunpowder, of four new chambers in the Great Pyramid containing 'quarry marks' - graffiti by the pyramid builders. Of related interest, Flinders Petrie's The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (1883) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
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An aparitie	2014
Autor	Howard Vyse
Dimensiuni	25.4 x 17.8 x 5.8 cm
Editura	Cambridge University Press
Format	Paperback
ISBN	9781108075695
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	1088