Dieter Arnold
Dieter Arnold (born 1936 in Heidelberg) is a German archaeologist.
Biography
He received his doctorate on 31 January 1961 from the University of Munich with the thesis "Wall relief and spatial function in Egyptian temples of the New Kingdom".
Arnold worked for the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo]] during excavations in Dahshur, Deir el-Bahari and El-Tarif.
From 1979 to 1984 he was a professor at the University of Vienna and then a curator at the Egyptian Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Arnold's specialty is the architecture of Ancient Egypt. As an employee of the Metropolitan Museum, he leads the museum's annual expeditions to el-Lisht and Dahshur.
In 1981 he published a proposal for the construction of the Great Pyramid. The ramp runs first outside and then in a corridor inside the pyramid. Arnold was aware that the construction method could not be explained purely archaeologically due to the lack of finds: "It is no longer possible to determine how the Egyptian builders managed their work. However, the examples of the Cheops and Chephren pyramids demonstrate that they succeeded in solving the problem".[1][2]
Arnold is married to the Egyptologist Dorothea Arnold.
Publications
Literature
References
- ^ Dieter Arnold: Considerations on the problem of pyramid construction. In: Reports of the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department. (MDAIK) Volume 37, 1981, p. 15ff.
- ^ Frank Müller-Römer: Pyramid construction with ramps and cable winches - a contribution to construction technology in the Old Kingdom. Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich October 2007, pp. 122-124 (full text as PDF).
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