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The Orion Mystery

Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids

Adrian Gilbert author Robert Bauval author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornerstone

Published:31st Jan '94

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The international bestseller from world-famous Egyptologists Bauval and Gilbert. The secrets of Ancient Egypt are revealed through a scientific exploration of the Pyramids.

Unlocking the secrets of the pyramids.

For thousands of years the pyramids have stood, imposing and enigmatic, refusing to give up their secrets.

Unlocking the secrets of the pyramids.

For thousands of years the pyramids have stood, imposing and enigmatic, refusing to give up their secrets. In this thrilling book of scientific and historical detective work, the authors try to answer some of history's oldest questions...

Why did the Egyptians really build pyramids?
What lies inside the Great Pyramid's hidden chamber and what awesome secret, unseeen for 4500 years, could be concealed there?

Bauval and Gilbert have spent over ten years investigating the mysteries of the pyramids. Their conclusions have aplit the academic establishment.

Absorbing and fascinating... how they reach their conclusions is clearly and rivetingly told... highly an compulsively readable * Sunday Times *
A discovery about the pyramids that could change our whole view of human history * Evening Standard *
Persuasive and scholarly * Observer *

ISBN: 9780099429272

Dimensions: 177mm x 110mm x 24mm

Weight: 204g

384 pages