The Pyramid Problem: Time, Stone, and the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom

ALISTAIR RAVENHURST

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. For more than four thousand years, the pyramids of Egypt have stood as the most extraordinary monuments ever created by human hands. Rising from the desert plateau, these colossal structures continue to...

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INTRODUCTION

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CHAPTER 1 — EGYPT AND THE OFFICIAL TIMELINE

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CHAPTER 2 — TOO MUCH, TOO FAST: THE PYRAMID TIME COMPRESSION

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CHAPTER 3 — THE “ONE BLOCK EVERY FIVE MINUTES” CALCULATION

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CHAPTER 4 — HOW HEAVY IS TOO HEAVY? CLASSIFYING MEGALITHS

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CHAPTER 5 — WHAT THE OLD KINGDOM DID NOT USE

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CHAPTER 6 — FOUNDATIONS BEFORE THE PYRAMID

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CHAPTER 7 — GRANITE INSIDE THE GREAT PYRAMID

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CHAPTER 8 — CASING STONES AND THE GREAT STRIPPING

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CHAPTER 9 — LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, AND THE PYRAMID BASE

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CHAPTER 10 — THE 43,200 SCALE MODEL OF EARTH

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CHAPTER 11 — WHY THE FIRST PYRAMIDS ARE THE BEST

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CHAPTER 12 — PRECISION VESSELS AND PREDYNASTIC

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CHAPTER 13 — WHEN WRITING IS YOUNGER THAN STONE

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CHAPTER 14 — THE SERAPEUM AND THE PERFECT BOXES

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CHAPTER 15 — RAMSES II AND THE CULTURE OF REUSE

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CHAPTER 16 — SAW MARKS AND RESET CUTS

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CHAPTER 17 — BASALT PAVEMENT AND INDUSTRIAL WORKFLOW

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CHAPTER 18 — TUBE DRILLING AND CORE EVIDENCE

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CHAPTER 19 — PETRIE’S CORE

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CHAPTER 20 — EGYPT’S OWN DEEP HISTORY

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CHAPTER 21 — ATLANTIS AND CATACLYSMIC MEMORY

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