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 Pyramids Without Wheels - http://members.aol.com/aditt48670/pyramid.html An illustrated article by inventor Allen Dittmer, with bibliography, from Inventors' Digest July/August 1999. He suggests that heavy blocks could have been moved with sledge and rollers. |
 Great Pyramid of Khufu - El Giza, Egypt - Great Buildings Online - http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Great_Pyramid.html Great Pyramid of Khufu by unknown architect, at El Giza, Egypt, -2600 to -2480, in the Great Buildings Online. |
 Pyramids: The Inside Story - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/ NOVA Online tours the Great Pyramid in QuickTime VR, explains how the pyramids were constructed and by whom. Also covers a 1997 excavation of the bakery that fed the pyramid builders. |
 Door Shuts on Pyramid's Mysteries - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/2259838.stm The BBC reports that the secrets of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Cheops will remain locked up for another 12 months after a door blocks a miniature robot explorer. |
 Engineering the Pyramids - http://www.materials.drexel.edu/Pyramids Professor Michel Barsoum describes evidence that parts of the Great Pyramids of Giza were built using an early form of concrete. |
 The Upuaut Project - http://www.cheops.org/ Computer-based study combined with robotic investigation of the shafts in the Great Pyramid of Cheops by engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink. He argues that they were not air shafts. |
 The Pyramids of Giza - http://www.culturefocus.com/egypt_pyramids.htm CultureFocus provides an illustrated introduction to the most famous monuments of ancient Egypt. |
 Pyramids - http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/ The British Museum provides a readable, illustrated introduction to the pyramids of Ancient Egypt. Includes an interactive reconstruction of Khufu's pyramid complex. |
 The Pyramids of Egypt - http://egyptphoto.ncf.ca/ Photographs by Frank P. Roy together with brief information, and site plans of pyramid complexes. Also a timeline and pyramid statistics, with sources, a map of Egypt and uncritical discussion of the Orion theory. |
 Pyramid of Man - The House of Going Forth by Day - http://www.pyramidofman.com An illustrated discussion by Vincent Brown on the architecture of Old Kingdom pyramids, with bibliography. The focus is on the depiction of the figure of Osiris in the substructure of Khufu's pyramid. |
 The Construction of the Pyramids - http://www.touregypt.net/construction/ An illustrated guide to the construction, architecture and the evolution of the design of the pyramids from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism. |
 Aimaz.net: Giza Project - http://www.aiwaz.net/GIZA-Project/c8 An attempt to understand the compositional principles of the Giza complex, which supports the conclusions of John Legon. |
 Harvard Magazine: Who Built the Pyramids? - http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/070391.html Archaeologist Mark Lehner has discovered a city of pyramid workers. Illustrations include a conjectural drawing of the Giza plateau near the end of Khufu's reign. |
 The Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser - http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arth/zoser/zoser.html Clickable plan and images, provided by the University of Pennsylvania. |
 Pyramid Construction - http://www.geocities.com/pprevos/pyramid/ A study of the logistical aspects of Egyptian pyramid construction in the 25th century BC by civil engineer Peter Prevos. Includes bibliography and links to Herodotus's comments on pyramid-building. |
 The Pyramid Builders - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/7357/builders.htm Concise, illustrated information on the pyramids from archaeology student N. A. Fink. |
 The Pyramids - http://www.kingtutone.com/pyramids/ An illustrated description of the evolution of the Egyptian pyramids and discussion of how they were built from King Tut One.com. Includes a virtual model of the Great Pyramid. |
 Egyptian Centres of Cult Worship - http://great-pyramid.info/inhalt/html/me/mstarte.htm Photographs and sectional drawings of the Egyptian pyramids. |
 The Giza Plateau Mapping Project - http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/GIZ/Giza.html Research on the geology and topography of the Giza plateau, construction and function of the Sphinx, Great Pyramids, associated tombs and temples, and the Old Kingdom town in the vicinity. |
 Architecture in Ancient Near East - http://lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/archimedia.html The University of Haifa Library presents a study of the construction of the pyramids of Egypt, in comparison with the ziggurats of Mesopotamia. Includes images, reconstructions and bibliography. |
 The Ziggurats - http://lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/list_ziggurat.html Aerial views, reconstructions, ground plans, and information about the methods used to construct the ziggurats at Uruk, Ur and Babylon. |