Greek architraves and columns
A Greek architrave: the stones running along the tops of the columns. This is the Temple of Hera - Agrigento, Sicily (ca. 450 BC) Greek temples on platforms Greek architects [...]
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Archaic Greece – Stone temples
Temple of Herakles, Agrigento, Sicily In early Archaic Greek temples, the columns and the roof were made of wood. To keep the wood from rotting, Greek builders put a flat stone under [...]
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Archaic Greek architecture – the first Greek temples
Temple of Hera, Paestum, Italy. There were no more kings in Greece after the Dark Ages, and so there were no more palaces or fancy tombs. Instead, people began to [...]
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Iron Age buildings of northern Europe
Iron Age buildings: a Roman bath building in Trier, in southern Germany, about 300 AD Roman buildings in northern Europe By the time of the Roman Empire, about 1 AD, [...]
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Stone Age buildings of northern Europe
Remains of a wooden temple (Ukraine, ca. 4000 BC) When modern humans first arrived in Europe from Central Asia about 45,000 BC, they weren't building houses yet, and they lived [...]
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Bronze Age buildings of northern Europe
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 [...]
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Pyramids at Giza – Ancient Egypt
Egyptian pyramids - the Step Pyramid at Giza What are the Pyramids? Like the Sumerians at the same time, the Egyptians around 3000-2500 BC devoted a lot of energy to building [...]
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Predynastic Egyptian mastabas
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 [...]
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New Kingdom temples – Ancient Egypt
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 [...]
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Egyptian houses – Ancient Egypt
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 [...]
