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- catalog abstract "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? Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and drawings, this book presents an original approach to the subject of pyramid building. It reveals the connection between devices that served both a practical need for survival and a spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. It examines 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. Here the author 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. He 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.".
- catalog alternative "Sticks, stones, & shadows".
- catalog contributor b12345794.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-336) and index.".
- catalog description "Mountains of the sun -- Egypt -- Early monuments -- Step pyramids -- The true pyramid -- The gnomon -- Orientation -- Preparing the site -- The nucleus -- Gathering material -- Building the nucleus -- The second stage -- The final building stage.".
- catalog description "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? Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and drawings, this book presents an original approach to the subject of pyramid building. It reveals the connection between devices that served both a practical need for survival and a spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. It examines 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. Here the author 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. He 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.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 352 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0806133422 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,".
- catalog spatial "Egypt.".
- catalog subject "932 21".
- catalog subject "DT63 .I85 2001".
- catalog subject "Pyramids Design and construction.".
- catalog subject "Pyramids Egypt.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Mountains of the sun -- Egypt -- Early monuments -- Step pyramids -- The true pyramid -- The gnomon -- Orientation -- Preparing the site -- The nucleus -- Gathering material -- Building the nucleus -- The second stage -- The final building stage.".
- catalog title "Sticks, stones, & shadows".
- catalog title "Sticks, stones, and shadows : building the Egyptian pyramids / by Martin Isler ; foreword by Dieter Arnold.".
- catalog type "text".