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CCT Ta aha RCT
4. STONE ISAN ABUNDANT BUILDING MAIE-
RINL EXCEPT ON TEMPLES AND PYRAMIDS,
MEDITERRANEAN SER
1. SOFT STONES ARE LIMESTONE, SANDSIO-
NE AND ALABASTER
3, HARD STONES ARC GRANITE, QUARTIZITE,
BASALT AND PORPHYRY.
4 SUN DRIED BRICKS ARE MADE UP OF CLAY
ANO CHOPPED STONE FOR PYRAMID +TEMPLES
EGYPT (5 KNOWN ASTHE LAND OF PHARAOH
ANOTAE DESERT LAND AND THEIR GREATEST
WEALTH 19 IT FERTILE SOIL.
WWE RIVER 15 EOYPT"S MEANS OF HIGHWAY,
COMMUNICATION AND LIFCLINE
EGYPTIANS DEPENDCD ON ANNUAL FLOODS TO
SOAK THE LAND AND DEPOSIT A LAYER OF SILt,
ORRIGH SOIL. THEY HAD 10 COOPERATE 10 GON:
TROLTHE NILE, BUILDING DIKES, RESERVOIRS,
AND IRRIGATION DITCHES.
aK
STRUCTURES IN EGYPT HAVE NO DOWN SPOUT,
DRAINAGE AND GUTTERS, DUC TO TAL ABSENCE
OF RNIN, EGYPTIAN STRUCTURES ALSO HAVE NO
WINDOW TO CUT HEAT PENETRATION
EOVPT HAS A WARM SUNNY CLIMATE WITH VERY
UUTTLE RAINFALL WHICH LEDTO BUILOING PRESER
5, ACACIA WAS USED FOR EGYPTIAN’S WAY OF
TRANSPORTATION, PARTICULAR TOTHCIR BOAT.
G.STUNMORE 15 USED AS A MATERIAL FOR
EGYPTIANS’ MUMMY CASES,
LSU
{PYRAMIDS NERC BUILT BECAUSE THEY
BELICVE IN LIFE AFTER DEATH AND FOR THE PRE-
SERVATION OF THE OERD BODY,
LPHARROH 15 NOT ONLY A KING BUT ALSO A
GOD. PHAROAH BECOMES OSIRIS AFTER DEATH
THAT MEANS G00 OF DEAD.
SANGAL,PAMELA JOY N. 2019 - 02826
EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH WORK NO. 2
|SOCIAL AND POLITICAL | HISTORICAL INFLUNCES
MONARCHY 15 COYPT?5 FORM OF GDVERNMENT. THE PHAROAHS WHO RULED EGYPT HAVE BEEN
A PHAROAH 15 CONSIDERED TO BE ITS KING, RULER J DIVIOCD INTO 30 DTNASTASIES + MOST PYRAMIDS
AND HIGHEST BRIESI. A HORUD 15 THE SON OF WERE BUILT DURING THE 4TH DYNASTY.
QSIRISCGOD OF DEAD) WHICH HE BECOMES THE} J ANCIENT KINGDOM (4400 - 2466 8.)
SUCCESSOR TOTHE THRONE. WHILE A VALUER 15, MASTABAS WERE BUILT DURING THE 38D DINAS
THE KING?S MOST POWERFUL OFFICIAL. THE ONE TY# MOST PYRAMIDS WERE BUILT DURING THE
WHO CONTROLS THE ROYAL TREASURIES, GRANA- ATH DYNASTY.
RIES, AND SUPERVISES THE CENSUS [5 CALLED} 2. MIDDLE KINGDOM ( 2466 - 1600 6¢)
THE GHANCLUOR. A CRICE STEWARD 19 IN-CHARGE] 1218 DYNASTY FOUNDED THE GREAT TEMPLE OF
OFTHE KING? 5 PERSONAL ESTATE * HOUSEHOLD. AMIMON AT KARNAK.
* SOUIAL LURE 15 GRAPHICALLY DEPICTED INTHE } 9. NEW KINGDOM (1400-932 BC)
WALL SCULPTURES OF TOMBS. SUAVE LABOR THLBCS BECAME THE CAPITAL + QUEEN HATSHE-
IS WRITTEN ALLOVER THE MONUMENTS OF EGYPT | PUT CONSTRUCIED THE TERRACED TEMPLE AT
WITATHE PRIESTS ENJOYING AN EXALTED PO- DER-EL- BAHARI.AMENOPHIS 0} BUILT THE
SITION IN SOCIETY. TEMPLE AT LUXOR + RAMESES Il COMPLETED THE
+ THE PHAROAH WHO WAS CONSIDERED TO BLTHE | HYPOSTYLE HALLOF AMMON TEMPLE, BUILT THE
SUN GOD, HEADED A DESPOTIC GOVERNMENT, } ROCK TEMPLE AT ABU SIMBEL ANDTHE THEBES
WHICH EMPLOYED VAST ARMICS OF LABORER ] AT RAMASSEUM, MAINLY BY USING THE SLAVE
WTHE ERECTION OF MONUMENTAL BUILDINGS, } LABOR OF THE HEBREWS
ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER | SYSTEM OF CONSTRUCTION
SIMPLICITY = ~ POST AND LINTEL]COLUNINAR + TRABEATED
= MONUMENTALITY =
= SOLIDITY/ MASSIVENES) <~
DUETOTHE SCARCITY OF LUMBER, THE TWO PRE:
DONINANT BUILDING MATERIALS USED IN ANC:
ENTEGYPT WERE SUN- BAKED MUD BRICK AND
STONE MAINLY LIMESTONE BUT ALSO SAND-
STONE AND GRANITE IN CONSIDERABLE QUANT.
1, BAFVERED NALL I THE TOP INCLINATION
FROM BASE TO OP
ZAJEROGLY PHICS 15 USED AS AN ORNAMENT,
PICTURES AND WRITINGS FROM THE WALL
“THE MASSIVE SLOPING EXTERIOR WALLS,
CONTAINING ONLY A FEW SMALL OPENINGS,
ASWELL AS THE COLUMNS AND PIERS
THAT THEY CONCEALED, WERE COVERED W)
HIEROGLYPHICS AND PICTORIAL CARVINGS
IN BRILLIANT COLORS,CStnuckunes
ITS AMONUNIENTAL STRUCTURE CONS
OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TOMB, BUILT OF ] TRUCTEDOF OR FACED WiTH STONE OR BRK
MUD BRICK OR, LATER, STONE, WITH SLO: J WAVING A RECTANGULAR BASE AND FOUR fay
PINGWALLS AND AFLATROOF.ADEEP J SLOPING TRIANGULAR SIDES MECTING AT
SHAFT DESCENDED TOTHE UNDERGROU: | ANAPEX THEY WERE CONSIDERED AS A
ND BURIAL CHAMBER, FUNERARY EDIFICES
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* SECOND BIGGEST OF ALL THE ANCIENT
LOCATED ONTHE EAST BANK OFTHE EGYPTIAN DBELISK 5. MADE OF ONE St-
NILERIVER INTHEBES. IT COVERS MORE } NGLE PIECE OF PINK GRANITE, IT HAS
THAN 100 HECTARES AN AREALARGER J AWEIGHT OF 26.98 METERS AND ITS
THAN SOME ANCIENT CITIES. MOST IMP- } WEIGHT 943 TONS. (115 LOCATED INTHE
ORTANT RELIGIOUS COMPLEX INEGYPT. | BIG TEMPLE DF AMON, IN KARNAK