Ends: Desert sands--the story begins -- Eyewitness: Early pyramids -- Nile Delta -- North Pyramid and Bent Pyramid -- Surveying the site: Giza -- Quarrying the stone -- Moving the blocks -- Laying the foundations -- Catalogue: Tools and measurements -- Water transport -- Nile in flood: Seasonal workers -- Masonry work -- Pyramid rises: Ramp theories -- Grand gallery -- King's chamber -- Adding the capstone -- Removing the ramp -- Finished pyramid awaits ... -- Eyewitness: Pharaoh dies -- Egyptian gods and the afterlife -- Mummification -- X-ray of a mummy, from head ... -- ... to toe -- Funeral procession and barge -- Procession arrives -- Into the burial chamber -- Pyramid complex -- Eyewitness: Finding the pyramids and Rosetta Stone -- The Sphinx -- Catalogue: Tomb treasures -- Catalogue: Pyramids -- Glossary and index -- Imprint and acknowledgments.
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