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    Pyramid
    Pyramid
    Pyramid
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    Pyramid

    By David Macaulay

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    “The mystery of the pyramids is solved before our eyes” in this illustrated YA guide to their construction by the Caldecott Medal-winning author (Kirkus).
     
    In Pyramid, acclaimed author and illustrator David Macaulay explores the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids from the initial planning stages to the methods used to lift stones up to the structure’s highest level. Through concise text and richly detailed black and white illustrations your readers are introduced not only to ancient Egyptian engineering, tools, and labor practices, but also the philosophy of life, death, and afterlife that made these awe-inspiring monuments necessary as a pharaoh’s final resting place.
     
    "Macaulay's brilliant Pyramid shows, detail by detail, how the great pharaohs' burial places were conceived and constructed… His draftsmanship is unexcelled, and his book is pharaonic in opulence and design."—Time
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 26, 1982
    ISBN9780547348391
    Pyramid
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    David Macaulay

    David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay has garnered numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post–Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given “to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.” Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of his books. David Macaulay lives with his family in Vermont.

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      Pyramid - David Macaulay

      title page

      Contents

      Title Page

      Contents

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Pyramid

      Glossary

      About the Author

      Copyright © 1975 by David Macaulay

      All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to [email protected] or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.

      www.hmhco.com

      The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

      Macaulay, David.

      Pyramid.

      SUMMARY: Text and black-and-white illustrations follow the intricate step-by-step process of the building of an ancient Egyptian pyramid.

      1. Pyramids—Construction—Juvenile literature. [1. Pyramids. 2. Egypt—Civilization] I. Title.

      DT63.M25 690'.6'8 75-9964

      ISBN 978-0-395-21407-7 hardcover

      ISBN 978-0-395-32121-8 paperback

      eISBN 978-0-547-34839-1

      v3.0816

      To My Parents

      Special thanks to Janice, without whose help this book would never have been finished, and to Ed Brovarski, Curatorial Assistant of the Egyptian Department at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, for time freely given and encouragement gratefully received.

      Life in ancient Egypt was fairly simple. Most people were farmers. For eight or nine months of the year they tended their small plots of land along the Nile river, growing wheat, fruit, and vegetables. Others raised cattle, sheep, and goats. They tried to feed themselves, pay their taxes, and store enough food to last through the annual inundation. This was the time between July and November when the river rose and flooded most of the farmland. The water eventually receded, leaving a new layer of rich and fertile earth.

      Between 3000 and 1100 BC the country was ruled by a long line of kings called pharaohs. Under the pharaohs were members of the royal court, governors of the provinces into which the land was divided, and commanders of the army. Priests and priestesses who officiated at religious ceremonies and attended the many gods that the Egyptians worshiped also served under the

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