In this book, Egyptologist Dr Aidan Dodson systematically traces the varied themes that scholars have expounded in their attempts to explain the culture, politics and religion behind these extraordinary achievements, and presents his own contemporary account of their purpose and evolution.
From the brick tombs of the First and Second dynasties to the step pyramids at Saqqara and the famous group at Giza, the book surveys over 2000 years of pyramid building, charting the rise and decline of the pyramids as funerary monuments.
Handsomely illustrated with full-colour photographs of ancient sites, as well as detailed site plans, this book offers an intriguing insight into the eternal destiny of the kings of Ancient Egypt.
