Operations Carried on At the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: Volume 2 - With an Account of a Voyage Into Upper Egypt, and an Appendix

This influential three-volume work, published 1840-2, narrates the excavations at Giza carried out by a British officer and Egyptologist.

List of contents

The pyramids of Gizeh (cont.); Appendix.

Summary

This influential three-volume work, published 1840–2, narrates in detail, with illustrations, important excavations on the pyramids at Giza, as carried out by Richard William Howard Vyse (1784–53). Volume 2 (1840) contains detailed descriptions of the excavation of several pyramids and their contents, and appendices with extensive measurements.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Vyse, Vyse Howard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2014
• EAN: 9781108075671
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07567-1
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology