What are triglyphs and metopes?
Greek temple at Agrigento, Sicily What are triglyphs and metopes? Most Greek temples have a pattern under the pediment known as triglyphs and metopes. The triglyphs alternate with the metopes [...]
Greek temple at Agrigento, Sicily What are triglyphs and metopes? Most Greek temples have a pattern under the pediment known as triglyphs and metopes. The triglyphs alternate with the metopes [...]
Ionic order: the parts of an Ionic temple A new way to build temples Around 500 BC, Greek architectural styles changed so that instead of building temples in the old [...]
Greek architecture: a Bronze Age palace in Knossos, Crete The first buildings in Greece The earliest buildings people built in Greece, in the New Stone Age, are small houses or [...]
Temple of Zeus at Cyrene (North Africa) Greek architects weren't just copying their old wooden temples for the fun of it though, or just because they couldn't think of any [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ancient China education - a Chinese school (actually from the 1500s AD) Most kids in ancient and medieval China never got a chance to go to school at all. They [...]
Goddess Temple, Niuheliang People in China started to build houses instead of living in caves about 5000 BC. That was about five thousand years later than the first houses in Jericho, [...]
A block of limestone Starting with seashells Limestone is a kind of sedimentary stone that is very common all over the world. This kind of stone forms out of the shells of [...]