Format:
1 online resource (xx, 292 pages)
ISBN:
9781107705494
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9781108075664
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Egyptology
Content:
An army officer and politician, Richard William Howard Vyse (178453) also made his mark as an Egyptologist. This three-volume work, published in 18402, has remained an instructive resource in Egyptology up to the present day. Adopting the style of a journal, with illustrations and diagrams throughout, it narrates in detail his excavations at Giza, surveying and measuring the pyramids. Following Vyse's return to England, the work was continued by the engineer and surveyor John Shae Perring (181369). Vyse gives observations of his travels, and of the landscape, people and architecture he encountered, as well as details of the important work he carried out. Most notable was his discovery, using gunpowder, of four new chambers in the Great Pyramid containing 'quarry marks' - graffiti by the pyramid builders. Volume 1 (1840) covers the start of his travels in Egypt and the early excavations on the Great Pyramid
Note:
Originally published in London by James Fraser in 1840
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108075664
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108075664
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107705494
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