Bronze Age architecture: Reconstruction of lake house (Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen on Lake Constance, Germany, ca. 3000 BC) Bigger and better houses in the Bronze Age As the people of Europe [...]
This model of an Egyptian house has more than one room (Louvre Museum, Paris) In the earliest days of the kingdom of Egypt, about 4000-3500 BC, Egypt was still divided [...]
New Kingdom temples: Temple of Amon at Luxor No more pyramids! By the time of the New Kingdom, about 1500 BC, nobody was building pyramids anymore (that's how we know [...]
A model of an Egyptian house found in a tomb from the First Intermediate Period (about 2100 BC) Most Egyptian people lived in small houses like this one. The house [...]
Pyramids at Giza, Egypt People tend to think that Egyptian building styles stayed the same for the whole period of Ancient Egypt, from the beginning of the Old Kingdom to [...]
Pyramid project: building a sand pyramid A pyramid project Ancient Egyptian pharaohs, like Mayan lords, built pyramids because they're a pretty easy shape to build. Pyramids are especially easy to [...]
Or you can get this lovely set of wooden blocks to build a Colosseum with A lot of people seem to want to build models of the Roman Colosseum for [...]
Roman aqueduct at Nimes, France Aqueducts were the most famous way the Romans used arches, but they really used arches in all their buildings. With an arch, you could build [...]
Or just order this kit from Amazon, which comes with everything all ready! Why not try making something out of cement yourself? Here is the recipe for cement: You'll need [...]
Ute wickiup Want to build your own wickiup? Try using a bunch of swimming noodles. Tie the ends of them together with string in pairs (two at a time), and [...]
