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In Gold and Lapis Lazuli

Robert Cioffi: How They Built the Pyramids, 8 May 2025

The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids 
by Pierre Tallet and Mark Lehner.
Thames and Hudson, 319 pp., £30, January 2023, 978 0 500 05211 2
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... thousand years after the fact, leave much to be desired.In The Red Sea Scrolls, Pierre Tallet and Mark Lehner, an American archaeologist who has worked extensively on Giza, don’t pass judgment on Herodotus and Diodorus, at least directly. They can’t explain all the mysterious cavities of the Great Pyramid, nor can they provide a new account of the ...

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