Giza: 1,200 Years of Exploration: From Al-Ma'mun to ScanPyramids (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798254199618)

For forty-five centuries, the Great Pyramid has stood on the Giza Plateau, outlasting empires, surviving wars, and resisting every attempt to fully understand it. And still, one discovery at a time, it gives up its secrets.

It begins in 820 CE, when the Caliph al-Ma'mun orders his workers to break through the pyramid's northern face with hammers and fire. He is searching for treasure. He does not find what he is looking for, but he opens a passage that no one will ever close again, and launches twelve centuries of exploration that have never stopped.

After him come adventurers, soldiers, engineers, thieves, and scholars. Some will descend into shafts untouched since antiquity. Others will blast through walls with gunpowder to save time. Still others will send robots into narrow channels and discover sealed doors, behind which no one yet knows what lies.

Giza: 1,200 Years of Exploration follows this chain of explorers closely: what they were looking for, how they worked, and what their discoveries changed in our understanding of the monument.


Author: Philip Walrus
ISBN-13: 9798254199618
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2026
Pages: 154
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d