📚 Pyramids

The tombs and their builders: how they were raised, why they were raised, and the endless speculation they still fund.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject pyramids in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Operations carried on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into Upper Egypt, and an appendix	Richard William Howard Howard-Vyse	1840	40
	The pyramids of Egypt	I. E. S. Edwards	1947	20
	Mummies and Pyramids (Magic Tree House Research Guide)	Will Osborne	2001	16
	I wonder why pyramids were built?	Philip Steele	1995	14
	An Egyptian Pyramid	Jacqueline Morley	1991	13
	A Search in Secret Egypt	Paul Brunton	1936	12
	Who Built the Pyramids?	Straun Reid	1995	12
	Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid	C. Piazzi Smyth	1877	11
	Secrets of the Great Pyramid	Peter Tompkins	1971	11
	Pyramidology	Adam Rutherford	1961	10
	Our inheritance in the Great Pyramid	C. Piazzi Smyth	1864	9
	The pyramids	Ahmed Fakhry	1961	8
	Mysteries of the Pyramids	Anne Millard	1995	8
	Pyramid	Caroline Bingham	2004	8
	The mountains of Pharaoh	Leonard Cottrell	1956	7
	The riddle of the pyramids	Kurt Mendelssohn	1974	7
	The secret power of pyramids	Bill Schul	1975	7
	Secret Chamber	Robert Bauval	1999	7
	The Great Pyramid	T. Septimus Marks	1879	6
	Pyramid	David Macaulay	1975	6
	Die Augen der Sphinx	Erich von Däniken	1989	6
	Pyramids	Fiona MacDonald	2000	6
	The secret of the great pyramid	Bob Brier	2008	6
	The pyramids and temples of Gizeh	W. M. Flinders Petrie	1883	5
	The Great Pyramid	Richard A. Proctor	1883	5
	The great pyramid Jeezeh	Louis Phillipe McCarty	1907	5
	"Nuggets from King Solomon's mine"	John Barnes Schmalz	1908	5
	The great pyramid decoded	Peter Lemesurier	1977	5
	The Orion mystery	Robert Bauval	1993	5
	Bridges	Nicola Baxter	2000	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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