Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture

Somers Clarke, Reginald Engelbach

Courier Corporation, Jan 1, 1990 - Architecture - 242 pages

Profusely illustrated description and analysis of actual building practices: quarrying methods, dressing and laying blocks of stone, brickwork, pyramid construction, Egyptian mathematics, tools, much else. Nearly 270 photographs and illustrations of sites and excavations, quarries, building plans, architects' diagrams and elevations, and a myriad of construction details. 125 photographs. 144 line illustrations.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture; Dover books on Egypt; Dover books on architecture
• Authors: Somers Clarke, Reginald Engelbach
• Edition: illustrated, unabridged, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Courier Corporation, 1990
• ISBN: 0486264858, 9780486264851
• Length: 242 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / History / Ancient & Classical