Download or read book The Mountains of Pharaoh written by Leonard Cottrell and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since GODS, GRAVES AND SCHOLARS has a book been published which so vividly captures the excitement and drama of archaeology. Here is the history of the exploration of the great pyramids--those enormous stone monuments which served as the tombstones and burial crypts of the Egyptian Kings--edifices so immense that the Arabs called them "Mountains of Pharaoh."