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Aerial views, reconstructions, ground plans, and information about the methods used to construct
the ziggurats at Uruk, Ur and Babylon.
http://lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/list_ziggurat.html
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Harvard Magazine: Who Built the Pyramids?
Archaeologist Mark Lehner has discovered a city of pyramid workers. Illustrations include a
conjectural drawing of the Giza plateau near the end of Khufu's reign.
http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/070391.html
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Egyptian Centres of Cult Worship
Photographs and sectional drawings of the Egyptian pyramids.
http://great-pyramid.info/inhalt/html/me/mstarte.htm
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Pyramid of Man - The House of Going Forth by Day
An illustrated discussion by Vincent Brown on the architecture of Old Kingdom pyramids, with
bibliography. The focus is on the depiction of the figure of Osiris in the substructure of Khufu's
pyramid.
http://www.pyramidofman.com
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Door Shuts on Pyramid's Mysteries
The BBC reports that the secrets of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Cheops will remain locked up for
another 12 months after a door blocks a miniature robot explorer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/2259838.stm
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The Blueprint of the Great Pyramid
Stephen Brabin analyses the geometric structure of the pyramid.
http://gpblueprint.users.btopenworld.com/
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The Pyramids
Illustrated introduction to the Step Pyramid and the Great Pyramids by Victor Shammas.
http://home.online.no/~shammas/pyramids.html
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The Pyramids
An illustrated description of the evolution of the Egyptian pyramids and discussion of how they
were built from King Tut One.com. Includes a virtual model of the Great Pyramid.
http://www.kingtutone.com/pyramids/
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Architecture in Ancient Near East
The University of Haifa Library presents a study of the construction of the pyramids of Egypt, in
comparison with the ziggurats of Mesopotamia. Includes images, reconstructions and bibliography.
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/archimedia.html
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Pyramid Precision
Writing in the journal Nature, Kate Spence shows that the orientation errors of earlier and later
pyramids faithfully track the slow drift of Kochab and Mizar.
http://www.nature.com/nature/fow/001116.html
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Great Pyramid of Khufu - El Giza, Egypt - Great Buildings Online
Great Pyramid of Khufu by unknown architect, at El Giza, Egypt, -2600 to -2480, in the Great
Buildings Online.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Great_Pyramid.html
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Pyramid Construction
A study of the logistical aspects of Egyptian pyramid construction in the 25th century BC by civil
engineer Peter Prevos. Includes bibliography and links to Herodotus's comments on
pyramid-building.
http://www.geocities.com/pprevos/pyramid/
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The Giza Plateau Mapping Project
Research on the geology and topography of the Giza plateau, construction and function of the
Sphinx, Great Pyramids, associated tombs and temples, and the Old Kingdom town in the vicinity.
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/GIZ/Giza.html
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Pyramids Without Wheels
An illustrated article by inventor Allen Dittmer, with bibliography, from Inventors' Digest
July/August 1999. He suggests that heavy blocks could have been moved with sledge and rollers.
http://members.aol.com/aditt48670/pyramid.html
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The Upuaut Project
Computer-based study combined with robotic investigation of the shafts in the Great Pyramid of
Cheops by engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink. He argues that they were not air shafts.
http://www.cheops.org/
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The Pyramids of Giza
CultureFocus provides an illustrated introduction to the most famous monuments of ancient Egypt.
http://www.culturefocus.com/egypt_pyramids.htm
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Who Built The Great Pyramids
An article by David Rohl, first published in the Express, on the evidence that we have for the
construction of the pyramids of Egypt, including recent discoveries by Zahi Hawass.
http://www.nunki.net/PerDud/TheWorks/Express/WhoBuiltPyrimads.html
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Pyramids
The British Museum provides a readable, illustrated introduction to the pyramids of Ancient Egypt.
Includes an interactive reconstruction of Khufu's pyramid complex.
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/
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How the Egyptians Built the Pyramids
Richard Koslowa suggests that Egyptians could have lifted heavy stones to build the pyramids by the
use of counter-weights. Illustrated with diagrams.
http://www.egyptspyramids.com
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Pyramids: The Inside Story
NOVA Online tours the Great Pyramid in QuickTime VR, explains how the pyramids were constructed and
by whom. Also covers a 1997 excavation of the bakery that fed the pyramid builders.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
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The Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser
Clickable plan and images, provided by the University of Pennsylvania.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arth/zoser/zoser.html
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The Pyramid Builders
Concise, illustrated information on the pyramids from archaeology student N. A. Fink.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/7357/builders.htm
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The Construction of the Pyramids
An illustrated guide to the construction, architecture and the evolution of the design of the
pyramids from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism.
http://www.touregypt.net/construction/
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