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Customers find the book well-written and well-researched, with compelling evidence and precise measurements of ancient Egyptian stonework. The book features good photographs, with one customer highlighting incredible close-ups of carvings. Customers appreciate the look of the book and its symmetry, with one review specifically mentioning the astonishing symmetry of colossal faces.
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A quick rundown of this product’s key features:
A unique study of the engineering and tools used to create Egyptian monuments
• Presents a stone-by-stone analysis of key Egyptian monuments, including the statues of Ramses II and the tunnels of the Serapeum
• Reveals that highly refined tools and mega-machines were used in ancient Egypt
From the pyramids in the north to the temples in the south, ancient artisans left their marks all over Egypt, unique marks that reveal craftsmanship we would be hard pressed to duplicate today. Drawing together the results of more than 30 years of research and nine field study journeys to Egypt, Christopher Dunn presents a stunning stone-by-stone analysis of key Egyptian monuments, including the statue of Ramses II at Luxor and the fallen crowns that lay at its feet. His modern-day engineering expertise provides a unique view into the sophisticated technology used to create these famous monuments in prehistoric times.
Using modern digital photography, computer-aided design software, and metrology instruments, Dunn exposes the extreme precision of these monuments and the type of advanced manufacturing expertise necessary to produce them. His computer analysis of the statues of Ramses II reveals that the left and right sides of the faces are precise mirror images of each other, and his examination of the mysterious underground tunnels of the Serapeum illuminates the finest examples of precision engineering on the planet. Providing never-before-seen evidence in the form of more than 280 photographs, Dunn’s research shows that while absent from the archaeological record, highly refined tools, techniques, and even mega-machines must have been used in ancient Egypt.
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Reviewer: Jason
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Powerful Look Into Ancient Egyptian Engineering…
Review: Christopher Dunn strikes again with this great book on Ancient Egyptian engineering and technology. While this book can come across technical at time, the material inside can not be ignored. Dunn has slowly chipped away at ancient Egyptian architecture and engineering to uncover the secrets to their marvelous feats of engineering.Having read Dunn’s previous book The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient Egypt, it prepared me well for this book. Dunn’s writing style is very simple, yet can be just as detailed as an engineering textbook. This blend of intrigue and engineering makes for a great read that strikes on all the right chords. The effort put forth by the author is quite obvious in the first few chapters, only backed up by the high quality of pictures used. With all these pieces in hand Dunn meticulously chips away at the puzzle to show evidence that Ancient Egyptians possessed technology and engineering know-how that was far superior than previously thought of.This book contains 12 chapters, each building a layer of evidence towards his final conclusion. With each new layer Dunn carefully guides you through the evidence and explains the engineering behind his logic. A magnificent selection of pictures accompany you throughout the book, and serve as examples for his theory. Dotted lines, circles, angles, focal points etc all are drawn over the images so help the reader see Dunn’s words take physical description. There is a perfect blend of intrigue and engineering here, compounded by strong research that makes his work a fascinating read.With all the good that comes from each chapter I will admit that for the average reader the material might seem very ‘heavy’ at times. While Dunn attempts to cover every angle with the engineering and science behind his work, it gets lost in translation sometimes. While my background in Electrical Engineering helps me understand some of his descriptions with ease; The same description might be very complex for someone without a heavy science background. This is probably the only part of the book which falls flat, in my opinion. The material is solid and it is clear Dunn made sure he triple and quadruple checked his work, but sometimes it may come across very complicated for the everyday reader. I found a similar problem in his previous book as well.However, OVERALL Do not let the math or science scare you. The few parts that might be confusing, or difficult to follow, will end up making sense when a less technical example is used. With the quality research, and the fantastic use of examples and photography, Dunn builds a powerful case towards proof that Ancient Egyptians were more advanced than we may of once believed. The marvels of engineering they created are only made grander by this book. An Excellent Book!!
Reviewer: Terry Sofian
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Traditionalists beware there are a lot of questions in here I don’t think you can answer
Review: Dunn uses his exceptional knowledge of both precision engineering and the ancient sites to raise some very serious questions about how a number of artifacts, from stone bowls to the Great Pyramid were constructed. Traditionalists will state that these questions are not worth asking and that they have all the answers, and can point to youtube videos to illustrate their points. I would like to see learned Egyptologists use recovered tools and make the sarcophagus of the Kings Chamber in the Great Pyramid, or perhaps the granite boxes at Saquara. I would also like to have the ability to build a structure as precise as the Great Pyramid without measuring tools of equal precision. It amazes me that the phenomenal precision of that building has been know and recognized by the academic community since Flinders Petrie did his work over 100 years ago and yet it seems to generate absolutely no formal discussion. Dunn is not an archaeologist, he is a precision machinist by training and trade. Just as Petrie suggested in his original survey of Giza (get a copy of The Pyramids And Temples Of Gizeh and see what Petrie has to say). Dunn sees the possibility that the very hard stones of the area were shaped using machine tools. Traditionalists suggest reading what experts say about the subject, but the experts do not really talk about the precision of the surfaces. They don’t talk about the measuring devices that must have existed but have never been discovered. It isn’t just a question of moving a large number of really large blocks, its a question of aligning them precisely with each other and with the cardinal compass points. Its a question of repetition and accuracy and symmetry in the worked objects. Dunn asks many questions and provides some answers, but not all. Its an excellent work and rewarding to read.
Reviewer: Estwing
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: As a construction professional of four decades myself, I read this book with a professional level of insight into, and personal experience of some of our present day’s engineering, tooling and construction practices, and methodologies.The photographic evidence, examples, experiments and theories the author presents and explores in these pages in order to explore the subject matter, is all extremely well presented, well written and respectfully told in relation to not only the ancient builders of these precision built feats of construction and engineering, but also to those from other disciplines who have gone before him in an attempt to explain some of the mysteries surrounding ancient Egyptian engineering.I found the book extremely well written, thoroughly researched and presented in a straightforward, logical manner.As the author rightly states several times, until further archaeological evidence that better explains how some of these feats of engineering were completed to the fine tolerances that they were, it is not possible to say definitively that the theories he presents here are correct; but from looking at the evidence he presents through the eyes of my own experience, I have to say I think he’s hit the nail firmly and squarely on the head. I have to concur that the narrative they were built using rock hammers and copper tooling, is not sufficient to explain away the tooling marks he references and explores. The metrology he presents is unequivocal.An enlightening read. I look forward to reading his other works with excitement.
Reviewer: Jürgensmeier
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Christopher Dunn kenne ich von seinem hervorragenden Vorläuferbuch. Leider sind diese Bücher nur auf englisch erschienen! Er ist nicht etwa Ägyptologe, sondern ein Ingenieur, der aus dem Baugewerbe stammt und Fachwissen mitbringt, das (leider) den Ägyptologen völlig abgeht. Deshalb betrachtet er die baulichen und figürlichen Hinterlassenschaften der alten Ägypter mit den Augen eines Fachmannes. Und was er dabei heraus findet, ist geradezu sensationell, wird jedoch von den Ägyptologen ignoriert. Denn, und das legt er geradezu detailliert dar, z.B. die Ramses-Figuren mit identischen Gesichtshälften, oder etwa die in sich völlig identischen Säulen im Hathor-Tempel in Dendera können nicht per Hand (und schon gar nicht mit den vorgegebenen Kupfer-Werkzeugen) in dieser Präzision hergestellt worden sein. Hinzu kommt natürlich noch, dass viele der Hinterlassenschaften aus dem überaus harten Granit hergestellt wurden. Nur, welche Geräte hier zum Einsatz kamen, und wohin sie verschwunden sind, das kann auch Dunn nicht beantworten. Man kann sich große Sägen vorstellen, denn Sägespuren findet man an vielen bearbeiteten Steinblöcken. Aber das war es schon.Es ist eine der großen Fragen der Ägyptologie: Die Ergebnisse sind vorhanden, aber niemand weiß, wer sie wie hergestellt hat. Wer englisch kann und sich für dieses Thema interessiert, dem sei dieses Buch wärmstens empfohlen!
Reviewer: ABHISHEK CHAKRABORTY
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Excellent!!!
Reviewer: fredm
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The reading is a little heavier than I expected and I haven’t got to far into the book as yet, but so far it is interesting to read, whether it solves the method of working stone back in the B.C. era, shall remain to be seen.
Reviewer: Nyog’ Sothep
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A must have book for the serious researcher. Dunn, with his 40 years of engineering experience, analyses the ancient stone artifacts and structures by a pure engineer standpoint, taking accurate measures and comparing his results with those of mainstream archeology, and the picture that comes out of it pretty much buries conventional theories. Academics are quick at calling him a new age quack and pseudo scientist, but the truth is, that his findings are best kept under the rug.The language is super technical, and the whole book deals with measurements, very accurate measurements, which is why it has been thoroughly ignored, rather than attacked, like it happens with lesser works by other authors.I could go on in details, but I just say this: if academic theories do not satisfy you, and you know there has been an ancient advanced civilization from which Egyptians hinerited their major sites and artifacts, this is the book that proves it scientifically.
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