[PDF.14aa] Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt (Bloomsbury Egyptology)

Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt (Bloomsbury Egyptology)

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 | #701957 in eBooks |  2016-04-21 |  2016-04-21 | File type: PDF

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Fun, but Unfulfilling, Popular Account|By Edward A. Mainzer|Cleopatra's Needles is a sometimes fun, but not fully satisfying read. The author has a long standing interest in ancient Egypt, but his doctorate was in philosophy, not art or architecture history let alone Near Eastern Studies, and the volume is written in a chatty, first-person format lacking depth. Published as par| ||“Well researched and entertaining with amusing historical anecdotes, this study will fascinate those interested in Egyptian ­antiquities as well as engineering.” -Edward K. Werner, ­formerly with St. Lucie Cty. Lib. Syst., USA, Library

In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 – one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left no records of how they did it. The nineteenth-century engineers entrusted with transporting the obelisks across oceans had to invent new methods, and they were far from certain th...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt (Bloomsbury Egyptology)   |  Bob Brier. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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