Engineering the Ancient World

Engineering the Ancient World

Dick Parry

Språken
FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9780752495507

How high were the walls of Jericho? Where did Nebuchanezzar get hold of all the bitumen he needed for the millions of bricks required to build Babylon? Was the ancient Suez canal really 200km long, and did 120,000 Egyptians die in the course of its construction? The ancient historian Herodotus had