Engineering Ancient Egypt for Kids: How Pyramids, Temples, Obelisks, Canals, and Cities Were Planned and Built (Ancient Egypt Explained for Kids) by BrightStart PrintShop
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Engineering Ancient Egypt for Kids reveals that the answer was not one secret machine. How did ancient Egyptians move enormous stones, align pyramids, raise obelisks, and manage vast building projects without engines, steel cranes, or modern surveying tools? It was a connected system of measurement, materials, transport, skilled workers, food supplies, records, testing, and repair. Readers follow stone from quarry to river to construction site and discover: • How surveyors created straight lines, level foundations, and repeatable slopes • How copper tools, abrasives, sledges, boats, ramps, ropes, and levers worked • How builders developed the Step Pyramid, Bent Pyramid, Red Pyramid, and Great Pyramid • How temples, obelisks, rock-cut tombs, canals, fields, and settlements were planned • How archaeologists separate strong evidence, reasonable inference, and open debate With clear diagrams, a timeline, glossary, source notes, further reading, and an index, this middle-grade nonfiction book is designed for readers ages 9–14, families, classrooms, libraries, and homeschool study.