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Summary: Message from President Mobarek
Review: "His Excellency President Hosni Mobarek wishes to thank [Moustafa Gadalla] and commends the spirit inspiring [Gadalla's] noble sentiments."
- Official Spokesman, Presidency of the Republic, Cairo - Egypt, 22 Nov 1997
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Summary: The Independent Review - 1/98 - Armidale, Australia
Review: ...[Gadalla] has allowed history to speak for itself through physical evidence, historical documents and primary materials. His discoveries are hence fascinating and challenging...Gadalla's works are numerous and do not simply focus on the Bible. They offer a radical reappraisal to how the pyramids were made and suggest that from the linguistics of the earliest accounts the records are describing the use of moulds. Accordingly, the stones were not "cut out of the earth" but were poured (like concrete)...
Gadalla at the same time is an easy to read, pragmatic author. He writes in small sections, uses charts, points and illustrations so that each of his four volumes are of value to both those with a cursory interest and the professional. Each is well produced, offers line illustrations on nearly every page and yet are economically priced.
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Summary: Is using a cumbersome language a sign of intelligence?
Review: For those people who were taught (mostly in the academic arena) that the Egyptian pyramids are tombs and are nothing but tombs, they will be disturbed by the overwhelming contrary evidence in this book. As a reader, don't be intimidated by big names. Be like an independent jury - review the evidence for yourself and make your own judgment. This book came as a result of in-depth research, and was written in a (God forbid non-academic) easy language. Is using a cumbersome language a sign of intelligence?
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Summary: Absolute trash!
Review: I am a graduate archaeology student with a heavy professional interest in Ancient Egypt. This book is an insult to another open-minded person. It is a mix of other people's ideas with his own radical theories (you only have to visit his website to see what a lunatic he is). The poured block theory is J. Davidovits', and has been disputed by the geologist James Harell. The current archaeological evidence for Ancient Egyptian building techniques is covered in Dieter Arnold's :Building in ancient Egypt", and the latest on the Giza ramps is available on Zahi Hawass' Guardian website. A previous reviewer describes the writing as that of a young adult. Sir, that's an insult to young adults who have better brain patterns than this author. Warning: BUY THIS BOOK AT YOUR PERIL!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: WORSE THAN ONE STAR
Review: I am by no means a professional Egyptologist, yet I have beenfascinated by the pyramids thanks to history courses offered in myhigh school, back in the 70s, as well as Oriental Institute courses. This should not be on the market. There are better books out there with much better and more accurate information. This was written by a young adult, certainly not by the same author of "Egyptian Cosmology" or "Exiled Egyptians." This entire book is an insult to Pyramidology and Egyptology.
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Summary: The Pyramids - Simplified
Review: It's nice to have the facts and data about the Egyptian pyramids all in one book, with maps to better visualize the placements and distances between them. The discussion of their construction is so thorough, that the blocks HAD to have been poured in place.
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Summary: About the Author
Review: Moustafa Gadalla was born in Cairo in 1944. He graduated from Cairo University with a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering in 1967. He immigrated to the U.S.A. in 1971, and continued to practice engineering as a Licensed Professional Engineer and Land Surveyor. He is an independent Egyptologist who spent most of his adult life studying and researching scores of books about Egyptology, mythology, religions, the Bible, languages, etc. He often lectures and writes articles about ancient Egypt. He spends a few months of every year in Egypt, visiting and studying sites of antiquities. As an engineer by training and practice, he approaches the issue analytically, logically, and writes the findings and conclusions in a rational and easy to understand way.
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Summary: Table of Contents
Review: Overview
The Reader Travels....................14
The Fictional Tombs...................16
The Genuine Masonry Pyramids..........21
The Ten Pyramids
At Saqqara............................28
The Pyramid Complex of Zoser..........30
Imhotep, The Architect................35
1 - The Step Pyramid of Zoser.........36
Unas Funerary Texts...................50
2 - The Sekhemket Pyramid.............52
3 - Kha-Ba's Pyramid..................58
4 - Huni and/or Snefru's Pyramid......62
5 - Snefru's Bent Pyramid.............72
6 - Snefru's Red Pyramid..............76
The Giza Plateau......................81
The Queen Mother's Tomb...............82
7 - Khufu's Great Pyramid.............84
8 - Djedefre's Pyramid...............142
9 - Khafre's Pyramid.................146
10- Menkaure's Pyramid...............156
Epilogue
The End of the Pyramid Age...........166
Pyramids and Astronomy...............170
The Endless Journey..................180
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Summary: You will find this book very interesting.
Review: Pyramid Illusions is a book about the pyramids -- not just the great pyramids, but other known pyramids in Egypt. Gadalla takes a new, fresh look at their possible uses and their construction. His viewpoints go against conventional lines of thought. He does not believe that the pyramids (with one exception) were intended as tombs. He does not believe in the traditional construction methods. Scholars also have come to the conclusion that the pyramids were not even built by slave labor. They were built by Egyptian craftsmen who willingly took part in the project, and who were paid to do it. The men who erected the great pyramids did so willingly, and with a great sense of "mission" or purpose. Gadalla takes this line of thinking one step farther. He states that the pyramids were not built as tombs for the pharaohs. First of all, they were not decorated like traditional Egyptian royal tombs (in fact, they bear no inscriptions at all). They were not laid out like traditional tombs. There is no evidence that any royal mummies were ever placed there. There is no evidence that grave robbers ever desecrated them. As for their construction, he points to the lack of evidence for ramps in their construction. How, then, were they built? He states that the limestone blocks were pre-cast in place, just like we would do today with concrete.
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Summary: A good overview of the pyramids
Review: Pyramid Illusions is an excelent book for anyone who wants to know the truth about the pyramids. This book is easy to read and not only gives a good overview of all the pyramids and their history, it tells how they were made and eliminates many of the misconseptions about them. This is a must read for anyone interested in anctient Egypt and it's most famous landmarks, the pyramids.
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