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.

Profusely illustrated description and analysis of quarrying methods, stone and brickwork, pyramid construction, mathematics, tools, much else. Nearly 270 photographs and illustrations of sites, building plans, architects' diagrams. Appendices. Bibliography.