What do the pyramids of Egypt really represent? What could have
driven so many to so great, and often so dangerous, an effort? Was
the motivation religious or practical?
Richly illustrated with more than 300 photographs and drawings,
Sticks, Stones, and Shadows presents an entirely original approach
to the subject of pyramid building. Unlike other books discussing
these majestic structures, this book reveals the connection between
devices that served both a practical need for survival and a
spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. Few have closely examined
Egyptian technologies and techniques from the origins of pyramid
development to the step-by-step details of how the ground was
leveled, how the site was oriented, and how the stone was raised
and placed to meet at a distant point in the sky.
Nevertheless, this is much more than a how-to-do-it book. Martin
Isler also asks and answers questions virtually ignored for the
last century. He discloses, for example, the ancient use of
shadows--now denigrated to the ornamental back-yard sundial--but
once an important tool for telling the height of an object,
geographical directions, the seasons of the year, and the time of
day. Isler also reinterprets the ancient "stretching of the cord"
ceremony, which once was thought to have only religious
significance but here is shown as the means of establishing the
sides of a pyramid.
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