Capture Mountains Of The Pharaohs: The Untold Story Of The Pyramid Builders Documented By Zahi A. Hawass Available In PDF

par son métier et fier de l'histoire de son pays, l'auteur oscille malheureusement sans convaincre entre plusieurs styles littéraires, . . un peu romancier, beaucoup égyptologue, pas du tout historien, Un livre à refaire Hawass does a fine job portraying the Egypt of theth Dynasty, that responsible for the great pyramids, He imagines the royals, the builders and the laborers, There's ample and lucid material on the pyramids themselves, the lives of people in the shadow of the pyramids, as it were, and a refreshing lack of "ancient alien" style nonsense.
Very Enjoyable. This short book was full of new and interesting information so often lost in the thousands of years between the pyramids and our civilization, He begins with the age of the pyramids and Djoser, then on to Snefru and the birth of the true pyramids, He then goes into detail of the construction of the Pyramids of Giza, A must read for any who love pyramids, Hawass has a frank manner of writing which I appreciate, especially his description of the museum holding Khufu's boat as ugly, He also tells the reader what he thinks which again is much appreciated, Fascinating because more time is spent on the builders, the common people's life than in most books that I've read, The author did a good job of Taking technical material and making it readable for the average person Lots of information and explanation about the Great Pyramid and other pyramids.
This book would have been more useful with illustrations to show what Hawass is talking about, The writing itself is fairly accessible, This would be a decent guide for someone visiting Egypt and wanting to know more, I actually enjoyed this one, . . I am a huge fan of Zahi Hawass and was not disappointed about this book! I found this book to be uneven, The author didn't shy away from using technical terms, and conveyed a good deal of historical information, but the writing was too informal for my tastes, I had a hard time distinguishing the author's opinions from the rest of the text, and at times the book seemed to be written for a middleschool audience, with asides such as, "Just imagine what an energetic man he was!" Another book I had already read and completely forgot about.


I thought I this would hold my interest but it didn't, It had all kinds of great details, . . I'll have to try again to reread this, My mind has been preoccupied with moving, .

st readWhile I really dislike Hawass when he struts across the screen during the many documentaries on ancient Egypt, I like him as an author,

There is so much more at the Pyramids at Giza in Egypt than just the pyramids themselves, As more and more research is coming to light, more is becoming known about not only the pyramids themselves, but also about the Pharaohs who ordered them built but more importantly about the people who worked on building them.


I've come to the conclusion that, unless a book about ancient Egypt is a renowned classic, it is best not to read any book if it is more thanyears old.
New information is coming to light all the time and a book written evenyears ago can have what we now know are errors, This book is a good one to read for now, but in a few years even more information will be known rendering this one out of date, too, A solid, readable popular history of theth Dynasty and the building of the Dahshur and Giza pyramids, A little less detailed than I would have liked, but for the general reader it's a nice introduction to the topic on a human level, Too scholarly. Couldn't get through it. As someone who is very intrigued by the ancient Egyptian lifestyle and the archeology of it's ruins, this book was definitely worth reading, It gives insight as to how not only the pharaohs of the time but the pyramid builders lived and worked, Mr. Hawass did an outstanding job in giving details on every aspect he could, Did you know Hawass is a worldfamous Egyptologist Did you know he's responsible for some amazing archeological finds Did you also know that he's so brilliant that he's discovered ruins completely by accident or after a heart attack Well read this book

and let him tell you! He sure likes to talk about himself!

The fictional narratives at the beginning of each book are the only reason I gave this two.
They are riveting, but far too brief, He then tries to justify each narrative with the history of Ancient Egyptian culture, This is a good introduction to theth Dynasty pyramid builders, but if you want to know more information about a articular source, good luck flipping through the bibliography.
Even wikipedia cites better than this guy,
If you like Egyptology, you will love this book, If you don't know what Egyptology means, you probably won't love this book, If you are like me, and you really want to like Egyptology but whenever you read anything about Egypt you feel as though your brain is being extracted through your naval cavity, who knows what you'll think of this book.


Mountains of the Pharaohs is interesting in that it endeavors to tell the whole story of how the Great Pyramids were built, It does this with minute detail which is sure to fascinate the scholar, but tends to leave the guys who don't like to get sand in their shoes, like me, a little lost.
Hawass does throw a bone to guys like me by filling in the gaps of his historic puzzle with little anecdotes about what people in Ancient Egypt might have said or done in a certain situation.
But, not even this occasional narrative departure enticed me because I was trapped in believing that he couldn't know what they actually said or did out of the historical artifacts he has collected.
The author even admits to this, Hey, he's trying. I can't fault him for that,

So, very wellwritten, Obviously very wellstudied. Just not very wellentertaining. At least for me, the average Djoser who prefers Memphis rub to Memphis statuaries, That's a little joke for all you Egyptologists out there, Take it or leave it, The audiobook edition was interesting, but the narrator sounded bored and listening to him put me into a sort of trance, The material itself was interesting and rates three, so skip the audio edition and get it as a book, Fascinating This was a very interesting book about the Giza pyramids, written by a controversial figure in Egypt today, I was predisposed not to like him from the start, But It was not the pompous book I thought it would be, I find it difficult to understand, however, that not one map was included in the book, Also, Hawass could have included a few more relevant illustrations, Lei la versión en español de este libro publicada por Crítica y que encontré en una sección de rebajas en la Librería Panamericana en Medellín.
Nunca entendí como un libro con un tema tan atractivo como la historia de las pirámides en Guizá, escrita por uno de los más reconocidos y carismáticos egiptólogos de las últimas décadas, Zahi Hawass, podría estar entre las rebajas.


Las bondades del libro, La narración detallada de la planeacion, construcción y “decadencia” de unos de las obras de ingeniería más fantásticas que nos legó la antigüedad, las pirámides de Guiza.


El inicio de cada capítulo contiene una pequeña narración, de estilo literario y teniendo como protagonistas los personajes históricos alrededor de las pirámides, que me recordaron al maravilloso Sinuhe el Egipcio de Mika Waltari.
No estoy muy seguro si estas narraciones iniciales, que de extenderse podrían constituir por sí mismas un entretenido libro, fueron escritas por el autor o por un escritor o periodista colaborador que de existir tampoco es mencionado en los agradecimientos pero jugando a la “arqueología” que es una suerte de ciencia forense geológica diría que así es.
El estilo literario es impecable y contrasta con la técnica más científica del resto del texto,

Lo malo del texto por lo que no le doy más estrellas en la puntuación: las prolongadas e inútiles descripciones del interior de las pirámides, los templos y estructuras adyacentes a ellas que lamentablemente no vienen acompañadas de suficientes ilustraciones y planos.
En más de una ocasión me vi consultando Google y Wikipedia Para entender la descripción de una pirámide o de una estela, En otras ni siquiera encontré una versión en línea que pudiera contrastar con el texto, No se si esto lo hicieron los editores para ahorrarse unos centavos, Espero que si el texto tiene una edición futura ojalá la hagan mejor ilustrada,

El manejo de los nombres de los personajes, las inscripciones jeroglíficas que les corresponden y que se reproducen bellamente en algunos apartes del libro también es inadecuado.
Si bien Zahi es egipcio y seguro respeta la tradición de usar “correctamente” los nombres de muchos personajes Queope en lugar de Keops griego, el libro debería tener una tabla que presentará las equivalencias y la razón de la diversidad de esos nombres, así como su correspondencia en arábigo, un idioma en el que están escritos con su correspondencia en castellano por ejemplo el nombre de muchos lugares en el texto.


En síntesis un bello e ilustrativo libro, que como la esfinge tiene una naturaleza dual, mitad texto académico, mitad texto divulgado sobre un tema que no ha pasado de moda en,años y del que parece por algunos misterios inacabados que describe el mismo texto se seguirá hablando por otro par de milenios.


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