Title: Book review: Pyramid - David Macaulay
Slug: book-review-pyramid-david-macaulay
Date: 2020-01-25 19:00:00
Tags: Books
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![Pyramid book cover](https://images.kartones.net/posts/theelderthoughts/books/book_pyramid.jpg)


More old book readings available on [the Internet Archive](https://archive.org/), the other day I finished [Pyramid](https://archive.org/details/pyramid0maca), which as you could guess by the title, explains how pyramids were built in ancient Egypt. Similarly to [Castle](https://theelderthoughts.blogs.kartones.net/post/book-review-castle-david-macaulay/), we're told a story of a fictional character (a Pharaoh) who requests a huge pyramid to be built before he dies, complete with a smaller one for his wife.

Again beautiful black & white hand-drawings and concise but clarifying diagrams and maps whenever needed help to narrate how the titanic structure was built. Very interesting and a quick reading (more than half of it's less than a hundred pages are full-page pictures).