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Egyptian Dawn: Exposing the Real Truth Behind Ancient Egypt
A fascinating look into the real history of the ancient civilizations, including revelatory new evidence which challenges accepted truths about the history of Egypt.
The mysteries of Ancient Egypt have proved an endless source of fascination to the world. Here, for the first time, international bestselling author Robert Temple seeks to expose the real history of this ancient civilization. In this fascinating study, Temple unearths revelatory new evidence which challenges accepted truths about the history of Egypt and questions the evidence which most Egyptologists have relied on since 1910. In doing so he has sought to answer the two big questions which have until now been taken for Where did Egyptian civilization come from? And who built the pyramids, and why?
With unprecedented access to lost portions of the valley temple which have long been closed to archaeologists, Temple presents a sensational, reconstructed story of Egypt which exposes a magnitude of previously unseen evidence,
Pinpointing exact locations of unopened royal tombs
Presenting re-datings of key monuments using a revolutionary
new dating technique
Exposing faked evidence which has been credulously accepted by the Egyptological community
Revealing who really built the pyramids
Unearthing the real truth about Egypt's most amazing pyramid, Giza
Packed full of fantastic, never-before-seen photographs, which provide hard evidence to support Temple's claims, Egyptian Dawn opens many paths to the truth in the story of Egypt.
From the Hardcover edition.
The mysteries of Ancient Egypt have proved an endless source of fascination to the world. Here, for the first time, international bestselling author Robert Temple seeks to expose the real history of this ancient civilization. In this fascinating study, Temple unearths revelatory new evidence which challenges accepted truths about the history of Egypt and questions the evidence which most Egyptologists have relied on since 1910. In doing so he has sought to answer the two big questions which have until now been taken for Where did Egyptian civilization come from? And who built the pyramids, and why?
With unprecedented access to lost portions of the valley temple which have long been closed to archaeologists, Temple presents a sensational, reconstructed story of Egypt which exposes a magnitude of previously unseen evidence,
Pinpointing exact locations of unopened royal tombs
Presenting re-datings of key monuments using a revolutionary
new dating technique
Exposing faked evidence which has been credulously accepted by the Egyptological community
Revealing who really built the pyramids
Unearthing the real truth about Egypt's most amazing pyramid, Giza
Packed full of fantastic, never-before-seen photographs, which provide hard evidence to support Temple's claims, Egyptian Dawn opens many paths to the truth in the story of Egypt.
From the Hardcover edition.
528 pages, Paperback
First published September 2, 2010
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May 4, 2018
a must read
October 22, 2012
This book was a little too descriptive for my taste. It was technical and assumed that you knew a lot about Egyptian mysteries.
For example, there was a whole chapter about how old the sarcophagi are, how they found out it was older than what people have believed them to be. I expected the book to tell me why the sarcophagi were present forty feet under the ground, which pharaoh it was, who looted Egypt and not just numbers, dates and measurements.
I was perhaps looking for a more magical rendition of the mysteries and stores of Egyptian civilisation, so I would be transported back to their times and learn of their lives and ways. So I was disappointed. It felt like I was reading an archaeologist's textbook.
For example, there was a whole chapter about how old the sarcophagi are, how they found out it was older than what people have believed them to be. I expected the book to tell me why the sarcophagi were present forty feet under the ground, which pharaoh it was, who looted Egypt and not just numbers, dates and measurements.
I was perhaps looking for a more magical rendition of the mysteries and stores of Egyptian civilisation, so I would be transported back to their times and learn of their lives and ways. So I was disappointed. It felt like I was reading an archaeologist's textbook.
June 29, 2015
As other people have commented this book is quote technical. It assumes that you know a lot about ancient Egypt, especially how old things are and what dynasty they belong to.
The writing style is also quite off-putting. There is a fair bit of technical detail, repetition of previously made points and some tangential discussions that only serve to add words to an already long book.
Despite,or perhaps because of the length of the book, each if the chapters felt a bit disjointed from the previous one and the entire premise for the book was only discussed in one chapter at the end of the book, rather than being introduced first and then woven into the rest of the book.
That said, the author does raise some interesting points that are worth considering further like that the pyramids are much older than conventionally thought, the chronology of kings and dynasties are partially based on potentially faked kings lists and that the megalith builders spanned the whole of western Europe.
The writing style is also quite off-putting. There is a fair bit of technical detail, repetition of previously made points and some tangential discussions that only serve to add words to an already long book.
Despite,or perhaps because of the length of the book, each if the chapters felt a bit disjointed from the previous one and the entire premise for the book was only discussed in one chapter at the end of the book, rather than being introduced first and then woven into the rest of the book.
That said, the author does raise some interesting points that are worth considering further like that the pyramids are much older than conventionally thought, the chronology of kings and dynasties are partially based on potentially faked kings lists and that the megalith builders spanned the whole of western Europe.
September 5, 2016
Temple is very thorough in his analysis of the facts. This means you have to have the patience to stick with it in order to understand his conclusions. This book has some fascinating information, particularly regarding the Valley and Sphinx temples.
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