This very nice book is about how the pyramids could have been build. Many options are looked at, many secrets revealed. A book that reads like an adventure. Science-based discoveries and work-outs.

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Pyramids, Temples and Tombs of Ancient Egypt. Discover the fascinating and mysterious world of the pharoahs with intriguing texts and more than 500 stunning colour photographs. Oversized edition.

Symbols of ritual centers are among the most persistent elements of myth and belief between cultures widely separated in time and space. Every tribe and state had its “generation center,” a sacred area within its heartland where its legendary founders gave birth to its people and established their laws. Within the inner sanctum of the sanctuary was an altar or pillar, the omphalos or navel stone, that marked the midpoint of the home territory and represented the world-pole on which everything revolved. It was the focus of a perpetual cycle of rituals and festivals that passed with the seasons around the country and held its people under the spell of a golden age. John Michell reveals the precise methods by which the ancients located the appropriate centers and adopted them as sanctuaries. The same principles of ritual geography in the siting of Akhenaten’s capital in Egypt and Megalopolis in classical Greece apply also to the traditional centers of small territories and islands.