Operations Carried on At Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: Volume 3, - 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

Preface; 1. Remarks upon the map; 2. Pyramid of Abou Roash; 3. Pyramids of Abouseir; 4. Pyramids of Saccara; 5. Pyramids of Dashoor; 6. Pyramids of Lisht; 7. Pyramid of Meydoom; 8. Pyramid of Illahoon; 9. Pyramid of Howara; 10. Pyramids of Biahhmoo; 11. The Birket Kharron; 12. Pyramid of El Koofa; 13. The mummy pits at Saccara; 14. Discoveries at Tourah; 15. Remarks on the measures by which the pyramids were built; 16. The Sphinx; 17. Remarks on the Egyptian army; 18. Horses in Egypt and Syria.

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 3 (1842) is an appendix to the first two volumes, and describes the work continued by John Shae Perring (1813–69).

Product details

• Authors: Howard Vyse, Vyse Howard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2014
• EAN: 9781108075688
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07568-8
• No. of pages: 276
• 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