Pyramids by Joyce Tyldesley, Viking, £18.99, ISBN 0670893226 Reviewed by Fekri Hassan
THE mysteries of how and, increasingly, why the pyramids were built has fascinated us for centuries. Reliable answers emerged only from deciphered ancient texts and exploration of the complex structures of entire pyramid installations, including the temples, walls, causeways, workmen’s towns and associated tombs of nobles and courtiers that surround the monumental structures themselves.
By 1947, there was enough information to allow the British Museum Egyptologist I. E. S. Edwards to produce his magisterial account The Pyramids of Egypt. Ahmed Fakhry followed this from the University of Cairo…
