The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man's Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt's Greatest Mystery

by Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin

Book Overview

The Secret of the Great Pyramid is a thrilling intellectual adventure story about the most exciting discovery in Egyptology in decades. Bob Brier, along with French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, tells the remarkable true story of Houdin's obsession with Egypt's Great Pyramid, one of the Seven Wonders of the World: how, in an ancient agrarian society not long removed from the Stone Age, such a remarkable structure could have been envisioned and constructed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006165552X
• ISBN13: 9780061655524
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"