An authoritative account by preeminent Egyptologist Miroslav Verner covering over 70 of Egypt's and Sudan's pyramids, their historical and political significance, updated in a magnificent new edition A pyramid, as the posthumous residence of a king and the place of his eternal cult, was just a single, if dominant, part of a larger complex of structures with specific religious, economic, and administrative functions.
The first royal pyramid in Egypt was built at t.
American University In Cairo Press The pyramids (new and revised): the archaeology and history of egypt's iconic monuments, hardcover/miroslav verner
