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Tables of Contents for The Complete Pyramids
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Pyramids, Land and People
6
2
Chronology
8
2
Map
10
2
Pyramids in the Landscape
12
2
The Giant Pyramids: Their Rise and Fall
14
4
The Standard Pyramid Complex
18
2
I TOMB AND TEMPLE
20
18
The Ka, the Ba and the Body Embalmed
20
5
Burial Rituals and the Pyramid Complex
25
3
This World and the Netherworld
28
3
The Pyramid Texts
31
3
The Pyramid as Icon
34
4
II EXPLORERS AND SCIENTISTS
38
34
Early Legends
38
2
Mythic History of the Copts and Arabs
40
2
The First European Discovery
42
4
Napoleon's Wise Men
46
2
Belzoni and Caviglia
48
2
Digging by Dynamite
50
4
Lepsius and Mariette
54
2
Petrie at the Pyramids
56
3
The Great Expeditions
59
7
Recent Discoveries
66
6
III THE WHOLE PYRAMID CATALOGUE
72
130
Origins of the Pyramid - Hierakonpolis
72
3
Royal Tombs at Abydos
75
3
Archaic Mastabas at Saqqara
78
4
Saqqara: An Overview
82
2
Djoser's Step Pyramid Complex
84
10
The Short Life of Step Pyramids
94
3
The First True Pyramids: Meidum and Dahshur
97
9
Giza: An Overview
106
2
The Great Pyramid of Khufu
108
12
Djedefre at Abu Roash
120
2
Return to Giza: Khafre's Pyramid and the Great Sphinx
122
12
Menkaure's Pyramid
134
4
The Passing of a Dynasty
138
2
The Pyramid of Userkaf
140
2
The Pyramids of Abusir
142
11
The End of the 5th Dynasty
153
3
Pyramids of the 6th Dynasty
156
8
Pyramids of the First Intermediate Period
164
2
Mentuhotep at Deir el-Bahri
166
2
The Pyramids at Lisht
168
6
The Second Phase of Middle Kingdom Pyramids
174
1
Mudbrick Pyramids
175
9
Late Middle Kingdom Pyramids
184
4
New Kingdom Pyramids
188
2
Ahmose at Abydos
190
2
`Private' Pyramids
192
2
Pyramids of Late Antiquity
194
8
IV THE LIVING PYRAMID
202
38
Supply and Transport
202
4
Quarries
206
2
The NOVA Pyramid-Building Experiment
208
2
Tools, Techniques and Operations
210
2
Survey and Alignment
212
3
Ramps
215
3
Rise and Run
218
4
Trouble at the Top
222
2
The Workforce
224
2
Building a Middle Kingdom Pyramid
226
2
Pyramid as Landlord
228
2
Pyramid Towns
230
3
Those Who Serve: Priests and Watchers
233
3
Loaves and Fishes
236
2
The Royal Workshops
238
2
Epilogue: The Legacy of the Pyramids
240
4
Visiting the Pyramids
244
2
Further Reading
246
6
Illustration Credits
252
1
Sources of Quotations
252
1
Index
253
3
Acknowledgments
256