{"product_id":"giza-philip-walrus-9798254199618","title":"Giza: 1,200 Years of Exploration: From Al-Ma'mun to ScanPyramids","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiza: 1,200 Years of Exploration\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Walrus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798254199618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d","brand":"Philip Walrus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801371062527,"sku":"9798254199618","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/giza-philip-walrus-9798254199618","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}