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Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry

Dieter Arnold, 1991. Oxford University Press.

The standard account of Egyptian stone construction: quarrying with copper tools and dolerite pounders, transport on sledges, ramps, levers and the surviving ramp remains at other pyramids.

MYS0CSMNN502D05 · mystery · click to copyMHow the Great Pyramid was builtBookdoi: 10.1093/oso/9780195063509.001.0001Checked against the original0

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Cited for the techniques and for the physical evidence of ramps.

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Arnold, D. (1991). Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195063509.001.0001
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