Book Description

A fascinating analysis of the relationship between mathematics and architecture in ancient Egypt. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

Review

"Rossi's book is a fascinating and worthwhile study of ancient Egyptian mathematics and architectural planning."

Vanessa Smith, Expedition

"Rossi has provided a fine introduction and overview of ancient Egyptian architecture. Throughout, the book is well written, clearly structured and richly illustrated. Its success is built likewise on her double expertise in architecture and Egyptology, and on her attempt to cast her net for evidence wide enough to include textual as well as archaelogical evidence. She succeeds in reconciling the two types of sources to a detailed picture of the ancient architects, and it can only be hoped that this book will be followed by further research of the same kind." - Annette Imhausen, Cambridge University

"This beautifully written book explores ancient Egyptian building design in the light of surviving evidence of how the Egyptians planned and laid out their monuments and how they manipulated the numbers. Rossi's goal is to peel away anachronistic interpretations of the ancient structures and to find explanations matching a full range of primary sources. She succeeds admirably and her clear-eyed approach, informed by common sense and a grain of skepticism, results in a provocative and convincing study." - Diana Wolfe Larkin --This text refers to the printed_access_code edition.

About the Author

Dr Corinna Rossi teaches Egyptology at the Circolo Filologico Milanese. --This text refers to the printed_access_code edition.

Book Description

In this fascinating new study, architect and Egyptologist Corinna Rossi explores the use of numbers and geometrical figures by the Ancient Egyptians in their architectural projects and buildings. While previous architectural studies have searched for 'universal rules' to explain the entire history of Eyptian architecture, Rossi attempts to reconcile the approaches of architectural historians and archaeologists by testing architectural theories against the archaeological and historical evidence. Highly illustrated with plans, diagrams and figures, this book is essential reading for all scholars of Ancient Egypt and the architecture of ancient cultures. --This text refers to the printed_access_code edition.