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WWK. The Ancient Egyptian Architecture and ways of building at the time. Ancient Egyptian Architecture 3050 BC – 900 BC.

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  1. WWK • The Ancient Egyptian Architecture and ways of building at the time.

  2. Ancient Egyptian Architecture 3050 BC – 900 BC Many people believe that the ancient Egyptians stuck to one type of building style through out the time of pharaohs, however the styles of building changed many times as in any society.

  3. Old Kingdom 2686 BC – 2181 BC • In the early part of the Old Kingdom, the Egyptians built mainly mastabas, a kind of tomb with a flat roof like a house. Then throughout most of the Old Kingdom, the Egyptians built the pyramid tombs which are now the most famous.

  4. Middle Kingdom 2055 BC – 1650 BC • In the Middle Kingdom, the mastaba tomb came back again, although in a more elaborate form for the Pharaohs. They didn't build any more pyramids.

  5. New Kingdom 1570 BC – 1069 BC • Then in the New Kingdom there was a lot of building that was not tombs: temples for the gods especially, but also palaces for the Pharaohs. You could compare these New Kingdom temples, with their columns mainly on the inside of the walls, to buildings from Shang Dynasty China, about the same time, where the columns are around the outside.

  6. Material • Due to the scarcity of wood, the two predominant building materials used in ancient Egypt were sunbaked mud brick and stone, mainly limestone, but also sandstone and granite in considerable quantities.

  7. Modern day Archaeological discoveries in Egypt reawakened an interest in the ancient temples and monuments. Egyptian Revival architecture became fashionable during the 1800s. In the early 1900s, the discovery of King Tut's tomb stirred a fascination for Egyptian artifacts and the rise of Art Deco architecture.

  8. video • http://youtu.be/V09C-AfQECM • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V09C-AfQECM&feature=fvsr

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