Download PDF by Robert Bauval,Thomas Brophy: Imhotep the African: Architect of the Cosmos

By Robert Bauval,Thomas Brophy

ISBN-10: 1938875001

ISBN-13: 9781938875007

In this ground-breaking booklet, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy discover the secret of Imhotep, an old Egyptian star, pharaonic Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, and Newton all rolled into one. Based on their examine on the Step Pyramid advanced at Saqqara, Bauval and Brophy delve into observational astronomy to "decode" the alignments and different design features of the Step Pyramid complicated, to discover the genuine origins and genius of Imhotep. Like a whodunit detective tale they stick with the clues that take them on an exciting magical secret journey beginning at Saqqara, best them to temples in higher Egypt and to the stones of Nabta Playa and the black African stargazers who put them there.

Imhotep the African describes how Imhotep used to be the traditional hyperlink to the delivery of recent civilization, restoring him to his right position on the middle of the birthing of Egyptian, and international, civilization

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