Text and black-and-white illustrations follow the intricate step-by-step process of the building of an ancient Egyptian pyramid.

Matt and Bibi are stuck inside a pyramid and have to solve the geometric hieroglyphics on the walls to find their way out.

Includes three high-flying missions featuring a never-before-seen episode.

The Great Pyramid stands today as the last of seven wonders of the ancient world. Yet, everything about it is shrouded in myster. Did the ancient Egyptians discover the secrets of complex mathematics, astronomy, geology, and the construction arts? What's behind the secret door found in the Great Pyramid? And why hasn't the door been opened a decade after its discovery? Could there be a secret chamber behind the door containing a storehouse of knowledge...

Presents a look at pyramids around the world, including those at Giza in Egypt, India, and South America.

With its Sufistic parables of the human condition, rendered in a style redolent of both the austere meditations of Borges and the dark engorged ruminations of Arthur C. Clark, Pyramid Texts engages the mind and beguiles the imagination. In a series of chapters each shorter than the last so that, like their subjects, they taper ultimately into nothingness the author evokes the obsessions that have drawn men over the centuries to the brooding presence...