Description
Product ID: | 9780486264851 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture |
Authors: | Author: Florence S. Hornblower, Somers Clarke |
Page Count: | 352 |
Subjects: | Architecture, Architecture, African history, Ancient history, African history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Egypt |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Profusely illustrated description and analysis of quarrying methods, stone and brickwork, pyramid construction, mathematics, tools, much else. Nearly 270 photographs and illustrations of sites, building plans, architects'' diagrams. Appendices. Bibliography. Profusely illustrated description and analysis of actual building practices: quarrying methods, dressing and laying blocks of stone, brickwork, pyramid construction, Egyptian mathematics, tools, much else. Nearly 270 photographs and illustrations of sites and excavations, quarries, building plans, architects'' diagrams and elevations, and a myriad of construction details. 125 photographs. 144 line illustrations. |
Imprint Name: | Dover Publications Inc. |
Publisher Name: | Dover Publications Inc. |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2003-03-28 |