The Boat Beneath the Pyramid: King Cheops' Royal Ship [Hardcover]

Nancy Jenkins (Author), John Ross (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1980

184 pp. with 150 illus. (13 in color), 8vo.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 184 pages
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; First US Edition edition (1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0030570611
• ISBN-13: 978-0030570612
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,525,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars This book is OK but it could have been better, June 21, 2010

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Steven Myers "author of Lost Technologies of ... (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Boat Beneath the Pyramid: King Cheops' Royal Ship (Hardcover)

The boat beneath the pyramid : King Cheops' royal ship by Nancy Jenkins is well produced and contains excellent pictures by John Ross. The text provides simply the conventional view that the purpose of the boat beneath the pyramid was related to a royal funeral ceremony of a dead Pharaoh. The book does an injustice to the reader by not including the growing body of research that has been conducted which gives an alternative view of the purpose of these boats. (There is another boat still buried on the Giza plateau.) The author, by providing just the explanation that Egyptologists provide, requires the reader to seek out books which provide a different understanding of the purpose of these boats.

The book, Pyramids on Water, Floating Stones by István Sörös provided extensive research regarding these boats. He contends these boats were used as floating cranes to lift stones off of barges and place them to build the Great Pyramid. The book I authored titled Lost Technologies of the Great Pyramid also describes this alternative purpose for these fascinating boats.

If you want to simply accept the ideas put forward by Egyptologists about these boats this book by Nancy Jenkins will satisfy you. If you want to know about alternative ideas about these boats you will have to seek out additional books to get a broader and fuller explanation as to why these boats exist.