Roman kitchens – houses in ancient Rome
Roman cooking braziers - Picture thanks to VROMA Did Roman houses even have kitchens? Poor Romans in the countryside most often lived with their whole family in one room of [...]
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08, 2017
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08, 2017
Roman houses – Ancient Rome
Roman houses: A model of a typical house (from Egypt) Living in one room Most people in the Roman Empire lived with their whole family in one room of a sort of small [...]
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07, 2017
What is a cloister? Medieval architecture
Cloister at Moissac (ca. 1100 AD, southern France) Where do cloisters come from? Cloisters were a medieval kind of building that developed out of Greek and then Roman peristyles. What is [...]
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07, 2017
Ottoman architecture – Topkapi
Topkapi Palace, Istanbul (Turkey, 1400s AD) By the time the Ottoman sultans conquered Constantinople from the Roman emperors in 1453 AD, the old palace of the Roman emperors was really very, very old. The Roman [...]
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07, 2017
Nasrid palaces – the Alhambra
Court of the Lions, Alhambra (1200s AD) By 1250 AD, the Christian kings of Spain had pushed the Almohads south so that they only ruled just the city of Granada, far in the south [...]
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07, 2017
Vedic architecture in India
A barrel-vaulted thatched house in rural India today. After the collapse of the Harappan civilization about 2000 BC, for hundreds of years there were no more cities in India. Instead, people lived in [...]
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07, 2017
What is a peristyle? Greek architecture
Peristyle in the House of the Vettii (Pompeii, 79 AD) A peristyle is a courtyard with a covered walkway all the way around it, with columns holding up the ceiling [...]
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06, 2017
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 [...]
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05, 2017
Houses – History of Architecture
History of houses: Sibudu Cave, South Africa, from the Stone Age Living in caves The first people lived without any kind of shelter, huddling under trees when it rained. They [...]
