Ancient Architecture

This stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings. Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan...

This book reveals the Ancient Egyptian knowledge of harmonic proportion, sacred geometry, and number mysticism, as manifested in their texts, temples, tombs, art, hieroglyphs, etc., throughout their known history. It shows how the Egyptians designed their buildings to generate cosmic energy, and the mystical application of numbers in Egyptian works. The book explains in detail the harmonic proportion of about 20 Ancient Egyptian buildings throughout their recorded history.

Across the ruins of forgotten empires and buried beneath the foundations of history lies a hidden language of numbers, symbols, geometry, prophecy, and sacred design —an ancient system once believed to govern the structure of civilization itself. The Secret Mathematics of Lost Empires is a sweeping and atmospheric exploration of the mysterious numerical, symbolic, and cosmological systems that shaped humanity’s earliest civilizations and continue to echo throughout the modern world.