Saving the Pyramids - Twenty First Century Engineering and Egypt''s Ancient Monuments

Informationen zum Autor Peter James is founder and managing director of Cintec International. Klappentext "Having worked on projects around the world, strengthening and restoring historically significant structures from Windsor Castle to the parliament building in Canada, Peter James brings insight to the structural engineering of ancient Egypt. After fourteen years working on the historic buildings and temples of Egypt, and most recently on the world' Zusammenfassung This book provides new and innovative theories into the construction of Egypt's ancient pyramids and the restoration of some of Cairo's most monumental structures from the brink of ruin. The decoding of their historic construction from a builder's perspective is examined and explained! often contrary to many existing theories.

Product details

• Authors: PETER JAMES, James Peter
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781786832504
• ISBN: 978-1-78683-250-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; first, HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, engineering, Monuments, Archaeology by period / region, Twenty, Century, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology, Ancient, Civil engineering, surveying and building, Saving, Egypt’s, Pyramids